4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: automatically determining one or more optimizer settings for the statement based on the performance information; and generating the hint for each determined optimizer setting.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: automatically determining one or more optimizer settings for the statement based on the performance information; and generating the hint for each determined optimizer setting. 7. The method of claim 4 , wherein the one or more optimizer settings are selected from the group consisting of: an optimizer mode, an optimizer level, an optimizer goal, a degree of parallelism, an index caching ratio.