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From: jklein@.com (Jonathan Klein)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: how bad is oracle?
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.182558.14411@oracle.com>
Date: 3 Feb 91 18:25:58 GMT
References: <10737@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jklein@oracle.UUCP (Jonathan Klein)
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
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In article <10737@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> mao@eden.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Olson) writes:
>a couple of days ago i posted a query about oracle to this newsgroup.
>since i got no response, i thought i would repost with a more provocative
>subject line.
>
>here's the question:  i have heard that oracle does not have a query
>optimizer.  i find this surprising.  is it true?
>
>email or post responses.  i'm eager to hear the answer to this one.
>
>					mike olson
>					postgres research group
>					uc berkeley
>					mao@postgres.berkeley.edu

All versions of oracle that I have worked with have had an query optimizer.

Jonathan Klein
Oracle Corporation