Oracle Query optimization using the hint

A few months ago when I was working with Oracle in a data warehouse, I came across hints. Basically these are statements in the below form

/*+ hint */
/*+ hint(argument) */
/*+ hint(argument-1 argument-2) */

placed inside your query to manipulate the oracle optimizer to optimize a query's execution plan. e.g.

select /*+ FULL(emp) PARALLEL(emp, 35) */  emp_name from emp; 

which basically says to the optimizer to do a full scan of the specified table using FULL(emp) hint and that the operation is to be done in parallel using  the PARALLEL(table, instances).
in multi-processor environments this is helpful if the table has not been altered with a certain degree of parallelism we can query a large table quite fast and since they appear as comments they are ignored by an environment that does not have multiprocessing.
Does anyone know how to do this in sql server?