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and I/O) processors that share memory and disk resource work simultaneously toward
achieving a single end result. As shown in Figure 11-9 parallel processing allows the
database engine to have more than one (or all) the processors working on a single query
simultaneously. The performance of a CPU-bound query can be significantly improved with
this feature on multiple-processor servers by distributing the processor load across more than
one processor. While using SMP does not require the presence of more than one CPU,
database parallelism is most effective when there is more than ...