On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Greg Rahn <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Parallel query works on external tables, however if one desires to > read the file in line order, there is no reason or benefit to use > parallel query that I can think of. > Doesn't parallelism of external tables require fixed-length rows? I thought that Oracle had to be able to determine the start/end boundaries for the parallel processes up-front, without the need to parse variable-length data first... -- "I'm too sexy for my code." -Awk Sed Fred