I'm quite certain that with 9.1 any restrictions on doing PDML on a single segment were removed and certainly in 10.1 PDML works on a single segment by doing granule based PDML vs segment based. Perhaps the documentation is incorrect. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Herring Dave - dherri <Dave.Herring@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But, for UPDATEs and DELETEs, your main gain with > parallel DML is with partitioned objects. At least that was the case in > 9i, as I believe the doc explicitly listed this (of course my quick > check didn't confirm this, so may be full of it). -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l