See Note:260845.1 Old and new Syntax for setting Degree of Parallelism In short, I don't think INSTANCES matters any more as it is internally converted to the new syntax (that doesn't include instances) anyway. Dan Rich Jesse wrote: -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lI'm looking to implement parallelism for our largest tables in 10.1.0.5.0 on AIX in order to more fully utilize our SAN. While continuing testing with various parameters, I've been seeing that there is an INSTANCES qualifier of the PARALLEL clause in the ALTER TABLE statement. |