2017-03-09

The following is a straight, continuous, untouched, cut-n-paste from an SQL*Plus session on 12.1.0.2. How come the update doesn’t execute in parallel – noting that parallel DML has been enabled and the tablescan to identify rows to be updated does execute in parallel ?

If you want to see the fully parallel plan, it would look like this (after running the query above against v$pq_tqstat I executed one statement that I’m not showing before carrying on with the statements below):

Answer coming some time tomorrow.

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