Oracle Hint List

Get Oracle Hint List

Getting a list of Oracle hints for SQL tuning is often difficult. The Oracle hint list is inside the Oracle executable and you can extract the Oracle hint list easily with UNIX commands.

Here are all of the Oracle9i hints on release 9.0.2:

ALL_ROWS
AND_EQUAL
ANTIJOIN
APPEND
BITMAP
BUFFER
BYPASS_RECURSIVE_CHECK
BYPASS_UJVC
CACHE
CACHE_CB
CACHE_TEMP_TABLE
CARDINALITY
CHOOSE
CIV_GB
COLLECTIONS_GET_REFS
CPU_COSTING
CUBE_GB
CURSOR_SHARING_EXACT
DEREF_NO_REWRITE
DML_UPDATE
DOMAIN_INDEX_NO_SORT
DOMAIN_INDEX_SORT
DRIVING_SITE
DYNAMIC_SAMPLING
DYNAMIC_SAMPLING_EST_CDN
EXPAND_GSET_TO_UNION
FACT
FIRST_ROWS
FORCE_SAMPLE_BLOCK
FULL
GBY_CONC_ROLLUP
GLOBAL_TABLE_HINTS
HASH
HASH_AJ
HASH_SJ
HWM_BROKERED
IGNORE_ON_CLAUSE
IGNORE_WHERE_CLAUSE
INDEX_ASC
INDEX_COMBINE
INDEX_DESC
INDEX_FFS
INDEX_JOIN
INDEX_RRS
INDEX_SS
INDEX_SS_ASC
INDEX_SS_DESC
INLINE
LEADING
LIKE_EXPAND
LOCAL_INDEXES
MATERIALIZE
MERGE
MERGE_AJ
MERGE_SJ
MV_MERGE
NESTED_TABLE_GET_REFS
NESTED_TABLE_SET_REFS
NESTED_TABLE_SET_SETID
NL_AJ
NL_SJ
NO_ACCESS
NO_BUFFER
NO_EXPAND
NO_EXPAND_GSET_TO_UNION
NO_FACT
NO_FILTERING
NO_INDEX
NO_MERGE
NO_MONITORING
NO_ORDER_ROLLUPS
NO_PRUNE_GSETS
NO_PUSH_PRED
NO_PUSH_SUBQ
NO_QKN_BUFF
NO_SEMIJOIN
NO_STATS_GSETS
NO_UNNEST
NOAPPEND
NOCACHE
NOCPU_COSTING
NOPARALLEL
NOPARALLEL_INDEX
NOREWRITE
OR_EXPAND
ORDERED
ORDERED_PREDICATES
OVERFLOW_NOMOVE
PARALLEL
PARALLEL_INDEX
PIV_GB
PIV_SSF
PQ_DISTRIBUTE
PQ_MAP
PQ_NOMAP
PUSH_PRED
PUSH_SUBQ
REMOTE_MAPPED
RESTORE_AS_INTERVALS
REWRITE
RULE
SAVE_AS_INTERVALS
SCN_ASCENDING
SELECTIVITY
SEMIJOIN
SEMIJOIN_DRIVER
SKIP_EXT_OPTIMIZER
SQLLDR
STAR
STAR_TRANSFORMATION
SWAP_JOIN_INPUTS
SYS_DL_CURSOR
SYS_PARALLEL_TXN
SYS_RID_ORDER
TIV_GB
TIV_SSF
UNNEST
USE_ANTI
USE_CONCAT
USE_HASH
USE_MERGE
USE_NL
USE_SEMI
USE_TTT_FOR_GSETS

Undocumented (under-documented) hints:

BYPASS_RECURSIVE_CHECK
BYPASS_UJVC
CACHE_CB
CACHE_TEMP_TABLE
CIV_GB
COLLECTIONS_GET_REFS
CUBE_GB
CURSOR_SHARING_EXACT
DEREF_NO_REWRITE
DML_UPDATE
DOMAIN_INDEX_NO_SORT
DOMAIN_INDEX_SORT
DYNAMIC_SAMPLING
DYNAMIC_SAMPLING_EST_CDN
EXPAND_GSET_TO_UNION
FORCE_SAMPLE_BLOCK
GBY_CONC_ROLLUP
GLOBAL_TABLE_HINTS
HWM_BROKERED
IGNORE_ON_CLAUSE
IGNORE_WHERE_CLAUSE
INDEX_RRS
INDEX_SS
INDEX_SS_ASC
INDEX_SS_DESC
LIKE_EXPAND
LOCAL_INDEXES
MV_MERGE
NESTED_TABLE_GET_REFS
NESTED_TABLE_SET_REFS
NESTED_TABLE_SET_SETID
NO_EXPAND_GSET_TO_UNION
NO_FACT
NO_FILTERING
NO_ORDER_ROLLUPS
NO_PRUNE_GSETS
NO_STATS_GSETS
NO_UNNEST
NOCPU_COSTING
OVERFLOW_NOMOVE
PIV_GB
PIV_SSF
PQ_MAP
PQ_NOMAP
REMOTE_MAPPED
RESTORE_AS_INTERVALS
SAVE_AS_INTERVALS
SCN_ASCENDING
SKIP_EXT_OPTIMIZER
SQLLDR
SYS_DL_CURSOR
SYS_PARALLEL_TXN
SYS_RID_ORDER
TIV_GB
TIV_SSF
UNNEST
USE_TTT_FOR_GSETS