By Jonathan Lewis http://www.dbazine.com/oracle/or-articles/jlewis12 The question in the title of this piece is probably the single most frequently occurring question that appears in the Metalink forums and Usenet newsgroups. This article uses a test case that you can rebuild on your own systems to demonstrate the most fundamental issues with how cost-based optimisation works. And [...]Image may be NSFW.
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