I'm now quite glad I continued to follow this thread as I didn't know that
about parallel query and direct IO. I have always been quick to call that
sorting.
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From: "Gogala, Mladen" <Mladen.Gogala_at_aetn.com>
To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:36 AM
Subject: RE: db_file_mutliblock_read_count and physical IO
> I find that the most confusion is caused by "direct read/write"
> events because they're caused not only by sorts but also by
> PQ processes which read directly from the file into PGA, bypassing
> the buffer cache.
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