title: How do I parallelise a simple SELECT query?
body: <p>Say I have the classic:</p>
  
  <p><code>select * from employees where dob &lt; to_date('10/10/1985', 'DD/MM/YYYY');</code></p>
  
  <p>The table is huge, so I want to parallelise this query. </p>
  
  <p>Going by what I can see here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10500_01/server.920/a96524/c20paral.htm#13255" rel="nofollow">http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10500_01/server.920/a96524/c20paral.htm#13255</a></p>
  
  <p>Essentially what we're wanting to do is arbitarily chop the table into n parts, and run our select statement on each chunk on a different thread, then join them together at the end. </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Is parallelisation appropriate here?</li>
  <li>How would I write the query? </li>
  </ol>