Enable Parallel DML or Not?

From: Kellyn Pedersen <kjped1313_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:20:13 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <686086.12366.qm_at_web32003.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I have to say as much as I learn about parallel processing everyday, the more questions I have...:)
 

I have numerous CTAS operations that load tables with large parallel degrees in both the insert as well as the select, (see example below...)
 

create table member_0_ordersum2 compress pctfree 0 tablespace MARTLARGE parallel(degree 16) as SELECT/*+ parallel (i 16) parallel (s 16)*/ o1.ibid

,recency_key
, ROUND(NVL(AVG(o1.nrt_gap_days), 0), 0) AS adbo
, ROUND(NVL(AVG(o1.onl_gap_days), 0), 0) AS adbo_o...

When I view these through OEM, it is not receiving the parallel on the table creation(insert) and is, of course, using a huge amount of temp space for the hash/sort processes, so I'm seeing large waits on direct read and writes to my temp tablespace group, along with sequential reads on the partitions in question, (but I find this to be an actual index from the data dictionary causing it to be a sequential read wait, not the actual partition, BTW.)
 

I've read misleading information view the web on CTAS being a parallel_DML statement, which I didn't think it was and if it is, would require me to enable parallel DML before the create table statement. 
 

QUESTION-  Is this just a mistake by some educated folks out there or are CTAS considered a parallel DML statement along with merge, insert, update and delete when using parallel?
 

Thanks!
Kellyn Pedersen
Multi-Platform DBA
I-Behavior

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