On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Michael McMullen <ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Would that run 8 threads on the single partition or just one with seven > being idle. I always thought it was one thread per partition. The 8 slaves would each be assigned granules from the single partition, so they would all have work to process. -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l