constraints

Recently I did some tuning of data generation scripts, which purpose is to build large amount of representative data for application testing. Direct-path inserts are in use and as a prerequisite all constraints and indexes on target tables are disabled before the load and are enabled after it. Since I wanted to utilize available resources on the machine for that task, almost each step uses parallel execution. Well, kind of almost, because enabling constraints didn’t run in parallel, although I’ve politely asked Oracle to do so. I’ll explain here why it didn’t work.