Ugh hints. The things they almost always recommend you don’t use because the optimizer should know better. Unsarcastically, this is usually true. More often I

Ugh hints. The things they almost always recommend you don’t use because the optimizer should know better. Unsarcastically, this is usually true. More often I see people who think they’re being clever killing performance with undocumented hints instead of either letting the engine do its work or looking for other ways to optimize.