Re: ONLINE INDEX CREATION

From: Ramsankar Cheruvattath <ram.cheruvattath_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:54:39 -0400
Message-ID: <CA+4fNro2PcbqAxv66-rAsiv15eq5DEFMr+8P9rCMiUC+YZ10_g_at_mail.gmail.com>



Thanks Andrew! I already checked parallel query servers availability. There were plenty available, but it was not using it.

Thanks
Ramsankar Cheruvattath (Ram)
4072096276

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:36 PM Andy Sayer <andysayer_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, you can do it parallel (and in this circumstance it’s parallel query
> + parallel DDL) and online. The main difference is that your reading of the
> table can’t use direct path reads when it’s online.
>
> If you can’t see parallel sessions being used then it’s likely because
> there weren’t any free to be used. If you have diagnostic+tuning pack
> licenced you can run the query on the bottom of
>
> https://ctandrewsayer.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/how-many-rows-were-insertedupdateddeleted-in-my-merge/
> against the sql_id to see the reported reason for DOP downgrade.
>
> That said, direct path read for parallel query on a partitioned table
> won’t necessarily happen anyway due to some bugs that have only recently
> been addressed.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Andrew
>

--
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
Received on Thu Sep 13 2018 - 18:54:39 CEST

Original text of this message