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FredrikJ
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Dataset refresh parallelism

Hi!

 

Our datasource is a Orcle database and I am trying to figure out why the first partition never is run with parallelism when refreshing a dataset.

If I run 7 partitions in a table the parallelism looks like this:

FredrikJ_3-1699949211614.png

The first partition runs on its own then the other 6 in parallelism

 

If I run 5 partitions in a table the parallelism looks like this:

FredrikJ_2-1699949193005.png

The first partition runs on its own then the other 4 in parallelism.

 

Does any one know why not all 5 partitions runs in parallelism in my last run?

 

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GilbertQ
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Hi @FredrikJ 


This is by design because the first query that runs, does the checks to ensure that the columns are valid and that there are no refreshing errors. Once the first query is successful it can then refresh in Parallel knowing that the subsequent queries will not fail.





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GilbertQ
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Hi @FredrikJ 


This is by design because the first query that runs, does the checks to ensure that the columns are valid and that there are no refreshing errors. Once the first query is successful it can then refresh in Parallel knowing that the subsequent queries will not fail.





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