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In various cases, existing index structures will not be utilized by the query optimizer. This is usually the case if the name of the database is not a static string (e.g., because it is bound to a variable or passed on as argument of a function call). Furthermore, several candidates for index rewritings may exist, and the query optimizer may decide for a rewriting that turns out to be suboptimal.
With {{Version|9.0}}, the {{Option|ENFORCEINDEX}} option was introduced, which allows you to enforce certain index rewritingscan be enforced. While the option can be globally enabled, it is usually better to supply it as [[XQuery Extensions#Pragmas|Pragma]]. Two examples:
* In the query below, 10 databases will be addressed. If it is known in advance that these databases contain an up-to-date text index, the index rewriting can be enforced as follows:
