In 11g Oracle has changed the default behaviour on this: If you don't set parallel_instance_groups parameter, and connect to the SERVICE, Oracle will start all parallel slave processes on the current instance. Cheers Stefan On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Martin Klier <usn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > James Barton schrieb: > > How can I force all of the child query processes to be on the same > > instance as the parent process? > > What a shame that the optimizer (CBO) does not recognize RAC properly in > 10g. Has anybody experience if this kind of situations are avoided in 11g? > > Regards > Martin Klier > -- > Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk > http://www.usn-it.de > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- ========================= Stefan P Knecht Senior Consultant Systems Engineering OPITZ CONSULTING Schweiz GmbH Seestrasse 97 CH-8800 Thalwil Mobile +41-79-571 36 27 stefan.knecht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.opitz-consulting.ch OCP 9i/10g SCSA SCNA =========================