Re: use external table to read alert log

  • From: Adric Norris <landstander668@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:54:44 -0600

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...

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