The volume of data being stored in databases has grown exponentially in recent years. So too has the need to rapidly generate value or business insights from that data.
Parallel execution is the key to processing large volumes of diverse data quickly, as it subdivides complex tasks into a number of small tasks allowing multiple processes to accomplish a single complex task.
However, the use of parallelism can complicate the execution plan displayed. Oracle not only displays the operations needed to complete the SQL statement in the plan but all of the communication steps between the parallel server processes.
So, how should you go about interpreting a parallel execution plan?
In the video below, I give you a step by step guide on how to read parallel plans and what additional information you can glean from them!