Stored Outlines (Plan Stability) are an Enterprise Edition Feature? A Self-Conflicting Story

December 2, 2011 An innocent question was asked in an OTN thread regarding the availability of plan stability options in the Standard Edition of Oracle Database.  If we check the documentation for the latest release (11.2.0.x) of Oracle Database, we will find the following statement: “The use of stored outlines is deprecated in Oracle Database 11g [...]