PARALLEL_DEGREE_POLICY

Property	Description
Parameter type	String
Syntax	`PARALLEL_DEGREE_POLICY = { MANUAL \| LIMITED \| AUTO }`
Default value	`MANUAL`
Modifiable	`ALTER SESSION`, `ALTER SYSTEM`
Basic	No

PARALLEL_DEGREE_POLICY specifies whether or not automatic degree of Parallelism, statement queuing, and in-memory parallel execution will be enabled.

Values:

Note:

Automatic degree of parallelism will be enabled regardless of the value of PARALLEL_DEGREE_POLICY if a PARALLEL hint is used at the SQL statement level.

MANUAL

Disables automatic degree of parallelism, statement queuing, and in-memory parallel execution. This reverts the behavior of parallel execution to what it was prior to Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2). This is the default.
LIMITED

Enables automatic degree of parallelism for some statements but statement queuing and in-memory Parallel Execution are disabled. Automatic degree of parallelism is only applied to those statements that access tables or indexes decorated explicitly with the DEFAULT degree of parallelism using the PARALLEL clause. Statements that do not access any tables or indexes decorated with the DEFAULT degree of parallelism will retain the MANUAL behavior.
AUTO

Enables automatic degree of parallelism, statement queuing, and in-memory parallel execution.