The parallellization is only beneficial if you are querying large result
sets. If you are looking up a row in a table by the primary key then you
would gain no benefit from parallellization.
<gdas_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8pjck2$4qh$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hi, I apologize if these questions seem basic...
>
> We currently have an Oracle test/development database running on a
> single processor Windows NT Server. We have a new machine coming soon
> which is a dual processor NT box, but is expandable to up to 4 CPUs. I
> am hoping to move the database to this new machine and I am trying to
> assess what I will need to do in order for oracle to take advantage of
> the additional processor. I have 3 specific questions:
>
> 1. Will I need to change/set any of the init.ora parameters?
> 2. Currently none of my tables were created using any specified degree
> of parallelism. If I migrate the data to the new instance as is
> (without any degree of parallelism) and don't change the application
> code at all to send parallel hints, will I still see some benefit from
> the additional processor?
> 3. Can I use parallel hints in SQL, even if the underlying tables were
> not created with any parallel clause?
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips,
>
> Gavin
>
>
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Received on Mon Sep 11 2000 - 21:05:12 CDT
