Comments on: Auto DOP: Differences of parallel_degree_policy=auto/limited http://uhesse.com/2011/10/12/auto-dop-differences-of-parallel_degree_policyautolimited/ Explain, Exemplify, Empower Fri, 24 May 2013 01:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Uwe Hesse http://uhesse.com/2011/10/12/auto-dop-differences-of-parallel_degree_policyautolimited/#comment-2127 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:52:21 +0000 http://uhesse.wordpress.com/?p=897#comment-2127 I finally could find some time to install 11.2.0.3 (very busy these days!) and I can now confirm that indeed the hint /*+ parallel (t,8) */ is followed also with parallel_degree_policy=auto, although the table is way too small to justify a (sensible) parallel query.

So it is not “… too small so it runs serial anyway”.

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