Are all set to 1 currently. I am working with Oracle on this now and will post the solution when and if it occurs. -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Lewis [mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 1:40 PM To: Fedock, John (KAM.RIC); oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: how to set parallel_max_servers without running PQ within out apps For the tables and indexes, did you set degree AND instances to 1 ? If you have degree = 1 and instances = default, it is possible (but I can't check it right now) that this will still allow Oracle to run a query with DOP as "degree x instances" - which in your case means parallel 2. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com Author: Cost Based Oracle: Fundamentals http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/cbo_book/ind_book.html The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fedock, John (KAM.RIC)" <John.Fedock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 2:18 PM Subject: how to set parallel_max_servers without running PQ within out apps For streams, we need to set parallel_max_servers to > 1. I made sure all tables and indexes have parallel set to 1 and then set the above parameter. Normal, homegrown queries started running in parallel. How can this happen if the degree is 1 for all objects? Is there a way to set parallel_max_servers > 1 for streams, and not have PQ option running on our application objects? This is a 2 node RAC, HP-UX system running 10.2.0.3. TIA,' -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l