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Thursday October 28, 2004 12:59 PM  When explain plans lie  [
#21572 ] A better explain plan always means better performance,
right? Wrong. Consider the PARALLEL hint in Oracle. I can get a
great looking explain plan with something absurd like this:
select /*+ parallel(table,32,32) */  But, if you time this, the
performance sucks rocks because there aren't nearly that many
striped disks, and the hint ends up working against you. This is
why you should always ask for information (i.e. number of cpu's,
striping, etc) about the hardware that the Oracle server is
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