January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
11h 28m
English
In the recent past, we have seen the passage from the megahertz era to the multi-core era in microprocessor design. Even laptops and small devices have multi-core CPUs available that can take advantage of applications accomplishing work in parallel.
In this recipe we will see how to enable parallel execution of queries to speed them up.
To observe a performance gain in this recipe, we obviously need a machine with a minimum of two cores. A single-core machine, using parallel SQL execution leads to a dip in performance when compared to using normal sequential execution.
In this recipe, we will use a query that returns about 1 million records. To avoid displaying this huge amount of data in our terminal, ...
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