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"Project Account(Dr. D. Cheung and pshek)" wrote:
> : > Can any1 give my some pointers on using oracle 8's partitioning? The do's
> : > and don't s, as well as how to set it up, and does any additional options
> : > need to be installed on the server?
>
> DOs:
>
> It's better if u've got 2 or more processors on ur database server
> machine and u should enable the parallel server option...
I think, or at least I hope, that you mean the Parallel Query option! Many other discussions have appeared in this newsgroup recently regarding the decision to use Parallel Server. Suffice to say for the purposes of partitioning Parallel Server does NOT need to be enabled.
Regards
Pete
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