I'm thinking (long time since I read about this) that using default lets oracle decide "proper" degree of parallelism, which IIRC I think is number of CPUs * parallel_threads_per_cpu. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Tow" <dantow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:36 PM Subject: curiosity, mostly: default parallel degree clause > All, > > I recently became aware that Oracle can have a DEGREE value (for example, for > parallelism in DBA_INDEXES) of 'DEFAULT'. (To my embarrassment, this value > makes one of my one-liner scripts in my book return an error, since it does not > convert to a number.) You can achieve this value at index-creation time with > the clause: > > parallel (DEGREE DEFAULT) > > Have any of you ever actually used this? What's it good for? > > Thanks, > > Dan Tow > 650-858-1557 > www.singingsql.com > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------