1 Oracle Parallel SQL Part 1 Extracted from the book “Oracle Performance Survival Guide” by Guy Harrison Parallel SQL allows a SQL statement to be processed by multiple threads or processes simultaneously
Today’s widespread usage of dual and quad core processors means that even the humblest of modern computers running an Oracle database will contain more than one CPU
While desktop and laptop computers might have only a single disk device, database server systems typically have database files spread – striped – across multiple independent disk devices
Without parallel technology – when an SQL statement is processed in s erial – a session can only make use of one of these CPUs or disk devices at a time
Parallel processing can improve the performance of suitable SQL statements to a degree