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Validating and creating indexes using parallel option

LauryJan 24 2016 — edited Jan 31 2016

Hi,

I am working with an Oracle RDBMS 12vR1.

I need to reload huge amount of data in a table.

Doing this, I first drop the constraints and the indexes, load the table (insert append), and then re-create the indexes and the constraints.

But re-enabling constraints and re-creating indexes can take a significant amount of time because each instruction is executed sequentially.

So, I proceed the following way:

1.1) drop the constraints

1.2) drop the indexes

1.3) set the session for parallel execution:

    ALTER SESSION FORCE PARALLEL QUERY PARALLEL 4;

    ALTER SESSION FORCE PARALLEL DDL PARALLEL 4;

   

1.4) re-create the indexes as:

     CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "TIGER"."PK_SALES_ID" ON "TIGER"."SALES" ("ID")

      PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 COMPUTE

    STATISTICS

      STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645

      PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST

    GROUPS 1

      BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)

      TABLESPACE "TIGER_D";

     

    and so on...

1.4) re-create the constraints as:

      ALTER TABLE "TIGER"."SALES" ADD CONSTRAINT "CC_COMM" CHECK (COMM < 1500) ENABLE;

     and so on...

But I do not observe a parallel execution. It still to be sequentially executed (the total execution time is about the same than if I do use the parallel instructions).

Does someone know if this is the correct way to force a parallel execution?

Thanks and Regards

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