In the final part of this series I want to cover one last source of Parallel Execution Skew: Skew caused by Outer Joins. If you have Outer Joins where the majority of foreign key values is NULL, this can lead to the following symptoms: From a processing point of view for a parallel outer join, the NULL value in the foreign… Read more
In this part of the series we will have a look at different approaches to how Parallel Execution Skew can be addressed via manual re-writes of an affected query. Let’s have a look at a couple of options. Approach 1: Mimic the new 12c skew aware feature Looking at the new 12c special skew aware distribution feature that I’ve introduced… Read more
Since Parallel Execution Skew is a common problem that can severely limit the scalability of Parallel Execution (see my previous article for a demonstration), Oracle has introduced a new feature in 12c that can address the problem automatically. That’s great, but unfortunately – at least in the initial 12c release – it only applies to a limited number of scenarios,… Read more
