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    Parallelism

    Hi,

    Is there any major difference between using PARALLEL hint in the query and using parallelism object level (alter table ...... parallel 4)?

    The only difference I can see is, with hint only the query with hint runs in parallel and with object level all the queries hitting that object will run in parallel.

    Please correct me If my understanding is wrong.

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    Vijay Tummala

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    You are correct.
    In our shop we do not like to set parallel degree > 1 by default but in some cases a specific query requires it so we hint it.
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    Thanks Paul.

    Would you mind to provide a scenario where in object level parallelism required by a specific query?

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    Quote Originally Posted by vnktummala View Post
    Would you mind to provide a scenario where in object level parallelism required by a specific query?
    Sure... two scenarios on the top of my mind.

    1- Maintenance - During a maintenance window conducting table reorganization I'll certainly hint-parallel the process.

    2- Exploratory, one time query - Picture a case where business is asking to run a particular query only once and there is no indexing strategy to support it. Since this is a one time shot it makes no sense to plan a suitable indexing structure so I'll probably schedule such a query to run off hours with a parallel hint on driving table.
    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

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    Thanks Paul.

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    Vijay Tummala

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