– Checking out theories around Oracle databases, and whether they may have a place in production
Large joins may use full scans and hash joins. If your tables are large enough, this will fill up your process working memory and start spilling to your temp-tablespace. At that time a few important effects come into play:
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Lately I’ve been working a lot with large bulk-loads of data between Oracle databases. The loading is done over db-links and we needed to speed up some of the loads since parallel DML is not supported in distributed transactions.
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