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PQ_DISTRIBUTE enhancement – Part 1

Oracle 11g has introduced a hell lot of new features related to Parallel Execution – like statement queuing, in-memory PX and auto-DOP, to name a few. There are also small bits of enhancements here and there – like default value of the PARALLEL_EXECUTION_MESSAGE_SIZE and an introduction of an easy way to stick PX slaves to a current RAC node with PARALLEL_FORCE_LOCAL. As I’ve recently discovered, PQ_DISTRIBUTE hint used only for joins prior to 11gR2, can now be used for load operations.

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