Amir, Have a look at http://oracledoug.com/px.html - Be aware that you set PQ's init.ora parameters properly, specially to limit the number of PQ servers: Otherwise, you might end up choking on CPU on unbound usage... John On 3/26/07, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No, PQ used by batch jobs. ________________________________ From: Arul Ramachandran [mailto:contactarul@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 1:08 PM To: Hameed, Amir Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Using PQ in FTS I was going to say unintended block cleanouts.. but then glanced Jonathan Lewis' book page 30 where it mentions 'segment checkpoint', that sounds almost like block cleanouts.... I suppose you did not mean PQ will be used by OLTP queries... Arul On 3/23/07, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Folks, > If there are statements where FTS on large tables is unavoidable due to > the logic in the statements, is there a downside of using PQ to scan > those tables? Jonathan has mentioned one caution on page 30 of his book > but are there any other issues that one must be aware of ? The RDBMS > version are 9.2.0.6 and 10.2.0.2. > > Thanks > Amir > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Arul
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