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Executing SQL in Parallel

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Parallelism can help improve performance on particular operations simply by assigning multiple resources to a task. Parallelism is best used on systems with multiple CPUs because the multiple processes used (that is, the parallel processes) will use those extra system resources to more quickly complete a given task.

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Alapati, S.R., Kuhn, D., Padfield, B. (2013). Executing SQL in Parallel. In: Oracle Database 12c Performance Tuning Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6188-9_15

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