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Oracle: Hints and their irregular inverse counterparts

The following query finds hints where the negative (inverse) variant is not simply no or no_ prepended to the hint name:
select
   lower(name   )     nam,
   lower(inverse)     inv
from
   v$sql_hint
where
   regexp_replace(name, '^NO_?', '') != regexp_replace(inverse, '^NO_?', '')
order by
   name;
--
-- NAM                               INV
-- --------------------------------  ----------------------------------------------------------------
-- append_values                     noappend
-- cache_cb                          nocache
-- data_security_rewrite_limit       no_data_security_rewrite
-- disable_parallel_dml              enable_parallel_dml
-- domain_index_no_sort              domain_index_sort
-- domain_index_sort                 domain_index_no_sort
-- enable_parallel_dml               disable_parallel_dml
-- force_json_table_transform        no_json_table_transform
-- force_xml_query_rewrite           no_xml_query_rewrite
-- index_asc                         no_index
-- index_desc                        no_index
-- index_ss_asc                      no_index_ss
-- index_ss_desc                     no_index_ss
-- inline                            materialize
-- materialize                       inline
-- noparallel                        shared
-- no_basetable_multimv_rewrite      rewrite
-- no_data_security_rewrite          data_security_rewrite_limit
-- no_expand                         use_concat
-- no_json_table_transform           force_json_table_transform
-- no_multimv_rewrite                rewrite
-- no_parallel                       shared
-- no_ref_cascade                    ref_cascade_cursor
-- no_xml_query_rewrite              force_xml_query_rewrite
-- pq_map                            pq_nomap
-- pq_nomap                          pq_map
-- ref_cascade_cursor                no_ref_cascade
-- shared                            no_parallel
-- use_concat                        no_expand
-- use_nl_with_index                 no_use_nl

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