Have you 
checked the column DEGREE in DBA_TABLES 
for this 
table?
 
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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Gupta, Brijesh 
  [mailto:Brijesh.Gupta_at_Airliquide.com]Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 
  12:51 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: 
  Why this sql is running in parallel ??
  Hi All,   I have a query which is 
  running parallel with degree 4. I don't want this sql 
  to run in parallel. My database is 8.1.6 
  optimizer_mode = CHOOSE      
  ALL tables are analyzed Tables 
  and  index have degree =1 No hint for the 
  parallelism is specified in the query. 
  Then how is its running in parallel. <FONT 
  size=2>Any ideas ?      
  
  SELECT T1.*  FROM 
  sd.INVOICE_ITEMS_ALL T1,sd.CP_CUSTOMERS T2, sd.ITEM T3 <FONT 
  size=2>WHERE T1.CUSTOMER_NUMBER = T2.CUSTOMER_NUMBER (+) <FONT 
  size=2>  AND T1.PRODUCT_NUMBER = T3.PRODUCT_NUMBER (+) <FONT 
  size=2>  AND MONTH = 'APR1999'   AND 
  BUSINESS_UNIT IN ( 'CYLINDER','BULK','TONNAGE'  ) <FONT 
  size=2>  AND T2.CATEGORY_CODE IN ( 'Direct','Equity Distributor - 
  Consolida','Equity Distributor - Non-Conso','Independent 
  Distributor','Tonnage'  )
  Here is from v$session : 
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  Lock USERNAME     SID SERIAL# 
  OSUSER   
  PROGRAM                    
  MACHINE          
  STATUS   wait LOGON_TIME ---------- ----- 
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  Thanks Brijesh <FONT 
  size=2>Oracle DBA 
 
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