Hi Larry, > In the distributed manual it > makes a comment about DML serializing when doing remote operations.
I am not sure about replication but in the past (on 8.1.5 and 8.1.6 versions) this has been my experience with CTAS over a dblink or DML over dblink in that it serializes. In order to achieve parallelism, the only workaround we had was (though not pretty :-) ) to use the ROWID hint on the CTAS and build a set of partition tables at the target and then merge them into a single table. Regards, Madhavan http://www.dpapps.com -- Madhavan Amruthur DecisionPoint Applications -- http://fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Madhavan Amruthur INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).