PARALLEL

Purpose

Enables you to increase or decrease the number of active processes (worker and parallel slaves) for the current job.

Syntax and Description

PARALLEL=integer

PARALLEL is available as both a command-line parameter and as an interactive-command mode parameter. You set it to the desired number of parallel processes (worker and parallel slaves). An increase takes effect immediately if there are sufficient files and resources. A decrease does not take effect until an existing process finishes its current task. If the value is decreased, then workers are idled but not deleted until the job exits.

Restrictions

  • This parameter is valid only in the Enterprise Edition of Oracle Database 11g or later.

Example

Export> PARALLEL=10

See Also:

"PARALLEL" for more information about parallelism