Parallel query

[bang_dba]

Hi,
Is there any setting to be done to enable parallel query, apart from using the hint ??
I am using Oracle 9.2

[pando]

you dont need hints if your tables/indexes are configured with parallel degrees

[bang_dba]

Ok.
But is there any hardware requirement like dual cpu's, multiple disks etc. Or are there any init.ora parameters to be configured ?

[pando]

set parallel_max_server > 0

no hardware related

[tabreaz]

I think for parallel processing we need to have more than one cpu; is it?

[pando]

Obviously you dont need more than one CPU to run parallel query

[tabreaz]

Then how can it parallize, will it internally multiple slaves?, if it use multiple slaves then it can only do IO parallely but it will not run the applications in parallel.right?

[pando]

What makes you think modern CPUs can run a process only.... :-?

[tabreaz]

I doesnot mean to say what u interpreated as,

i mean at one time the CPU can run only one job;

[pando]

I doesnot mean to say what u interpreated as,

i mean at one time the CPU can run only one job;

Is that true...?

Right now I am burning a DVD, listening to mp3, running 2 ftp sessions, browsing with Firefox with a single CPU PC