Hi All, I came across this new feature in 11gR2 ( In-Memory parallel execution). I wanted to check this feature but having some difficulty. I executed following sqls to check this feature. create table mem1 pctfree 99 pctused 1 as select rownum id, trunc(100 * dbms_random.normal) val, rpad('x',100) padding from all_objects where rownum <= 10000 ; begin dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( user, 'mem1', cascade => true, estimate_percent => null, method_opt => 'for all columns size 1' ); end; / create table mem2 pctfree 99 pctused 1 as select rownum id, trunc(100 * dbms_random.normal) val, rpad('x',100) padding from all_objects where rownum <= 10000 ; begin dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( user, 'mem2', cascade => true, estimate_percent => null, method_opt => 'for all columns size 1' ); end; / select 1 from mem1, mem2 where mem1.id = mem2.id ; Statistics ---------------------------------------------------------- 0 recursive calls 0 db block gets 10356 consistent gets 0 physical reads 0 redo size 172430 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client 7802 bytes received via SQL*Net from client 668 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client 0 sorts (memory) 0 sorts (disk) 10000 rows processed alter table mem1 parallel; alter table mem2 parallel; select 1 from mem1, mem2 where mem1.id = mem2.id; Statistics ---------------------------------------------------------- 1098 recursive calls 0 db block gets 23838 consistent gets * 770 physical reads* 0 redo size 172430 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client 7802 bytes received via SQL*Net from client 668 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client 20 sorts (memory) 0 sorts (disk) 10000 rows processed Here I am not able to justify the physical reads happening in parallel mode because as per In-Memory parallel execution of 11g R2 ,PX need to read from buffer cache . Thanks And Regards, Anupam