What are the drawbacks, if we don't mention degree of parllelism in Parallel hint of a query?
Previously when i raised the question regarding the impact of parallel hint on OLTP system, many people responded. Thank you for the response. As we are using a join between the big table and lookup table, to avoid full table scan on the big table when we filter by a particular lookup code of lookup table, I have to use parallel hint otherwise it is going by full table scan of big table and also response time is low. But I want to know what is the degree of parallelism I have to mention in the hint... as I have no