More data please! - what DOP? - what version? - what is the plan? Lets start with the data you are looking at, not just your observation. Otherwise people just guess. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:52 AM, LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l