Don Burleson On Oracle Parallel Query

"One of the latest trends is for systems to have more and more CPUs inside a single server. Using symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) servers, it is not uncommon for an Oracle server to have 8, 16, or 32 CPUs, along with many gigabytes of RAM for the Oracle SGA regions." writes Don Burleson in an article entitled "Take Advantage of Multiple CPUs with Oracle Parallel Query" "Oracle has kept pace with these changes and offers a wealth of facilities to take advantage of multiple CPUs. Starting with Oracle8i, Oracle implemented parallelism in virtually every database function, including SQL access (full-table scans), parallel data manipulation, and parallel recovery. The challenge for Oracle professionals is to configure their databases to use as many of the CPUs as possible."