What should I do with old hints in my workload?

We promised in an earlier post to cover some of the questions from the Optimizer round table discussion at Oracle Open World. Here’s our first in a series of posts that will address these questions.
Q: When moving from 10g to 11g, should hints in existing SQL be removed?
A: I was glad to see this question [...]

Peaking behind the knowledge curtain

After threatening for years to start a blog Martin Widlake has finally put fingers to keyboard. Some of you may recall that I am a fan of his UKOUG presentations. His writing is entertaining and insightful too. Despite his blog being called Yet Another OracleBlog he has not written much on Oracle, [...]