Time slicing of parallel jobs

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sathyanveshi
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Time slicing of parallel jobs

Post by sathyanveshi »

Hi,

Can I time slice the parallel jobs? What I mean is: say, I have to load 4 tables of 10 million rows each. Assuming each parallel job takes around 20 minutes to load each table, to start with job1, can I schedule job 2 to run 15 minutes after the first job (overlap of jobs 1 and 2) and after 10 minutes of start of job 2, can I schedule job 3 and so on? In that case, what are the issues that I may face? How does Parallel Extender react to this situation? Overall, what's the overhead?

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Post by ray.wurlod »

No.

Parallel means parallel. They run simultaneously.

You can do what you want by creating multi-instance server jobs, and controlling those through a job sequence.
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