Parallel Execution -- 1b The PARALLEL Hint and AutoDoP (contd)

Continuing the previous thread, having restarted the database again, with the same CPU_COUNT and missing I/O Calibration statistics  ....

The question this time is : What if the table level DoP is specifically 1 ?

[oracle@localhost ~]$ sqlplus '/ as sysdba'

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Mon Mar 2 23:22:28 2015

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Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SYS>show parameter cpu

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
cpu_count                            integer     4
parallel_threads_per_cpu             integer     2
resource_manager_cpu_allocation      integer     4
SYS>show parameter parallel

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
fast_start_parallel_rollback         string      LOW
parallel_adaptive_multi_user         boolean     FALSE
parallel_automatic_tuning            boolean     FALSE
parallel_degree_limit                string      CPU
parallel_degree_policy               string      MANUAL
parallel_execution_message_size      integer     16384
parallel_force_local                 boolean     FALSE
parallel_instance_group              string
parallel_io_cap_enabled              boolean     FALSE
parallel_max_servers                 integer     135
parallel_min_percent                 integer     0
parallel_min_servers                 integer     0
parallel_min_time_threshold          string      AUTO
parallel_server                      boolean     FALSE
parallel_server_instances            integer     1
parallel_servers_target              integer     64
parallel_threads_per_cpu             integer     2
recovery_parallelism                 integer     0
SYS>

SYS>select * from dba_rsrc_io_calibrate;

no rows selected

SYS>
SYS>connect hemant/hemant
Connected.
HEMANT>set serveroutput off
HEMANT>select degree from user_tables where table_name = 'LARGE_TABLE';

DEGREE
----------------------------------------
         4

HEMANT>alter table large_table parallel 1;

Table altered.

HEMANT>select degree from user_tables where table_name = 'LARGE_TABLE';

DEGREE
----------------------------------------
         1

HEMANT>select /*+ PARALLEL */ count(*) from LARGE_TABLE;

  COUNT(*)
----------
   4802944

HEMANT>select * from table(dbms_xplan.display_cursor);

PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SQL_ID  47m7qyrj6uzqn, child number 0
-------------------------------------
select /*+ PARALLEL */ count(*) from LARGE_TABLE

Plan hash value: 2085386270

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation              | Name        | Rows  | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |    TQ  |IN-OUT| PQ Distrib |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT       |             |       |  2622 (100)|          |        |      |            |
|   1 |  SORT AGGREGATE        |             |     1 |            |          |        |      |            |
|   2 |   PX COORDINATOR       |             |       |            |          |        |      |            |
|   3 |    PX SEND QC (RANDOM) | :TQ10000    |     1 |            |          |  Q1,00 | P->S | QC (RAND)  |
|   4 |     SORT AGGREGATE     |             |     1 |            |          |  Q1,00 | PCWP |            |
|   5 |      PX BLOCK ITERATOR |             |  4802K|  2622   (1)| 00:00:32 |  Q1,00 | PCWC |            |
|*  6 |       TABLE ACCESS FULL| LARGE_TABLE |  4802K|  2622   (1)| 00:00:32 |  Q1,00 | PCWP |            |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   6 - access(:Z>=:Z AND :Z<=:Z)

Note
-----
   - automatic DOP: skipped because of IO calibrate statistics are missing


27 rows selected.

HEMANT>select px_servers_executions from v$sqlstats where sql_id='47m7qyrj6uzqn';

PX_SERVERS_EXECUTIONS
---------------------
8

HEMANT>

Aaha ! Again ! The same SQL statement, the same SQL_ID, the same Execution Plan (Plan Hash Value) and Oracle chose to use 8 PX Servers for the query !  Again, ignoring the table level DoP (of 1)

So, once again, we see that Oracle actually computes a DoP that looks like it is CPU_COUNT x PARALLEL_THREADS_PER_CPU. Let's verify this.

HEMANT>connect / as sysdba
Connected.
SYS>alter system set parallel_threads_per_cpu=4;

System altered.

SYS>alter system flush shared_pool;

System altered.

SYS>connect hemant/hemant
Connected.
HEMANT>select degree from user_tables where table_name = 'LARGE_TABLE';

DEGREE
----------------------------------------
         1

HEMANT>set serveroutput off                        
HEMANT>select /*+ PARALLEL */ count(*) from Large_Table;

  COUNT(*)
----------
   4802944

HEMANT>select * from table(dbms_xplan.display_cursor);

PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SQL_ID  8b0ybuspqu0mm, child number 0
-------------------------------------
select /*+ PARALLEL */ count(*) from Large_Table

Plan hash value: 2085386270

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation              | Name        | Rows  | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |    TQ  |IN-OUT| PQ Distrib |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT       |             |       |  1311 (100)|          |        |      |            |
|   1 |  SORT AGGREGATE        |             |     1 |            |          |        |      |            |
|   2 |   PX COORDINATOR       |             |       |            |          |        |      |            |
|   3 |    PX SEND QC (RANDOM) | :TQ10000    |     1 |            |          |  Q1,00 | P->S | QC (RAND)  |
|   4 |     SORT AGGREGATE     |             |     1 |            |          |  Q1,00 | PCWP |            |
|   5 |      PX BLOCK ITERATOR |             |  4802K|  1311   (1)| 00:00:16 |  Q1,00 | PCWC |            |
|*  6 |       TABLE ACCESS FULL| LARGE_TABLE |  4802K|  1311   (1)| 00:00:16 |  Q1,00 | PCWP |            |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   6 - access(:Z>=:Z AND :Z<=:Z)

Note
-----
   - automatic DOP: skipped because of IO calibrate statistics are missing


27 rows selected.

HEMANT>select px_servers_executions from v$sqlstats where sql_id='8b0ybuspqu0mm';

PX_SERVERS_EXECUTIONS
---------------------
16

HEMANT>

YES SIR ! Oracle chose to use 16 PX Servers this time. So that does look like CPU_COUNT x PARALLEL_THREADS_PER_CPU.  Have you also noticed the COST ?  The COST has also dropped to half.  So, the COST is also computed based on the number of PX Servers that it expects to be able to grab and use.

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