PARALLEL QUERY

  • From: "DBA Deepak" <oracle.tutorials@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:19:59 +0530

Hi Experts,

Have a problem related to parallel query execution. I have a setup of Oracle
10g (10.2.0.3) on solaris 64 bit and on a 16 core CPU system.

When I execute parallel hint in the query the following happens.

Does not use PQ processes for the query:

select /*+ parallel(bt,4) */ from big_table bt;

Does use PQ processes for the query:
select /*+ parallel(bt,16) */ from big_table bt;
Please help me in understanding why this happens.


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Regards,

Deepak
Oracle DBA

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