No, indeed I have not tried it. I usually do not change parameters just because it's there. There is usually something I want to achieve by changing parameters. My main motto is: If it ain't broken, don't fix it. So far, I haven't seen anything that would benefit from changing that parameter. Besides, my database is 90% OLTP. I don't really want users to do parallel anything. Only DBA personnel is in consumer group which allows parallel execution. For everybody else, it's explicitly prohibited (max degree of parallelism=1). -- Mladen Gogala Ext. 121 _____ From: zhu chao [mailto:zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 10:31 AM To: Gogala, Mladen Cc: Oracle-L Subject: Re: PARALLEL_EXECUTION_MESSAGE_SIZE Hi, Mladen, parallel_execution_message_size is not a parameter "do not touch unless directed otherwise by Oracle technical support personnel". I do not see such info in metalink/document. Actually this parameter is very useful for parallel execution tuning. You maybe never tried it:). Doing standby database recovery tuning , tune this parameter with default value, can result in 4X recovery speed. This is very useful in deed, right?