Re: Parallel Execution: Oracle8 Ent. Ed. vs. Server

Visit http://www.oracle.com/availability and you will see your assertion the *only* difference is Parallel Query is utterly untrue. Enterprise comes with objects, function based indexes, a facility to replace literals by bind variables and so and so on and so on.
With respect to parallel query, you can enforce parallelism on several levels
instance wide
per table (by modifying your tables attributes in the dictionary) per statement by using hints.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

<speedrazer_at_usa.net> wrote in message
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> Hello, all! I'm trying to decide whether or not to license the Oracle
> 8 Enterprise Edition or Workgroup Server and from what I can tell, the
> only real difference, for the sake of the application that would be
> running on it, is the issue of Parallel Execution of SQL. My question
> about this is whether Oracle parallelizes execution by default if the
> Enterprise Edition is installed or whether the SQL needs to be written
> with the proper hints or explicit commands.
>
> Many thanks! -SR
Received on Mon Oct 23 2000 - 11:05:44 CDT