Yes. The DOP is 8 on the table and 12 on the indices. What I noticed is that I can do alter session FORCE parallel ddl and that would result in my command running with DOP of 96. This however will probably take all the resources of the server. Thank you Eugene Gurevich Harel Safra <harel.safra@gmai l.com> To genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx 01/26/2010 01:42 cc PM oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject Re: ALTER TABLE modify partition rebuild unusable local indexes does not run in parallel Just checking, you do have "degree" defined as greater than 1 on those indexes? Harel Safra On 26/01/2010 17:43, genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello: > > I am running this under oracle 10.2.0.3: > > alter table OWNER.TABLE modify partition P1 rebuild unusable local indexes > ; > > The partition has 150-200M rows and three indices. All indices as well as > the table itself are partitioned either 8 or 12 ways, but the alter table > command seems to be only running in sequential mode (and takes over 10 > hours). Is there anyway run it in parallel? > > Thank you > > Eugene Gurevich > > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l