Am I understanding this wrong? This is from the 10G docs. UPDATE, MERGE, and DELETE operations are parallelized by partition or subpartition. Update, merge, and delete parallelism are not possible within a partition, nor on a nonpartitioned table. See "Limitation on the Degree of Parallelism" for a possible restriction. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Rahn Sent: February 13, 2009 1:40 PM To: ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Parallel DELETE on Partitioned Table with Domain Index 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. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l