Sql with dynamic parallel hint built by script at the OS level looking at file sizes? On 5/15/10, LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > I have a query which runs against 64 external tables, the query uses union > all to return the results. > > The query is really slow even with high parallel degree and I noticed that > it is because in the 64 external tables most of times the last 50 tables > hasnt got any rows so when the parallel coordinator assigns slaves many > times the first two slaves reads the 14 tables with most of data and the > rest reads the empty tables. Due to this even I use parallel the query is > pretty slow. > > Anyone got experience how to deal with this? > > > Thanks > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l