Well now I can go home because I've learned something today. Never looked at degree in dba_indexes. I create all of my indexes in parallel which I guess automatically puts as degree = 'DEFAULT'. I have only seen this effect on my partitioned tables. This is good, time for some serious testing. Thanks Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tanel Põder" <tanel.poder.003@xxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 1:16 PM Subject: Re: parallel execution on partitioned tables (was: Oracle 9.2.0.5 "10046" Tracing ...) > > the query will serialize. If I put a local bitmap index on jack and the > > partitioned key is not specified in the query then a parallel index probe > > into each local index. > > Are you sure that your partitioned local index is also PARALLEL 1? > > Tanel. >----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------