Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 12/15/06 16:22

Dan Guzman (guzmanda@nospam-online.sbcglobal.net) writes:
> To add on to Erland's response, excessive parallelism can be a symptom
> that query and index tuning is needed. The optimizer will sometimes
> throw processors at the problem to compensate.

Yeah, but in those cases the query usually don't complete in three seconds
if constraint to one CPU!


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