Multiple choice

Which of the following terms in parallel database refers to the total number of parallel execution servers for a single operation?

  1. Intra-query parallelism

  2. Shared disk architecture

  3. Degree of parallelism

  4. Range partitioning

  5. Data partitioning
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Explanation

The degree of parallelism (DOP) indicates how many operations can be or are being simultaneously executed by a computer. It is especially useful for describing the performance of parallel programs and multi-processor systems.

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