Is it better to run parallels alone or bootcamp?

I had an older MBP and at first i was running bootcamp alone with my autodesk inventor software. Then i happened to buy and install parallels and everything ran perfect!
Within the last week I upgraded to a new MBP with a faster processor and twice the ram. This time I did not run boot camp, just installed parallels alone... Now my inventor software is lagging and seems much slower to respond to commands. If i partition my drive with bootcamp and run parallels with it will it speed things back up? I am new to the parallels software so I'm not sure what would be the best choice. I just know I love using parallels, makes my life much easier when things run up to speed..

New computer means your Windows OS needs to be prepped or a new install - new hardware = new activation license.
Using a partition gives you option to dual boot. Also you are not using a VM image file which is limiting.
Most people want to run 3D and processor/graphic intense software natively rather than in a VM but if Parallels suits you, fine.
Were you using Parallels 10 and 10.10 before? I think you should upgrade to the new version as the older versions of Parallels are not optimized for Yosemite which also plays a big role and another reason it is sluggish.
I believe in clean install - any OS, whether Mac or Windows, the end result is a more stable, faster, performs better with fewest possible bugs or glitches.
When you used Boot Camp you also had to install Boot Camp Apple drivers for 'that' Mac which might still be there, but missing the drivers for your newer rMBP too.

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- Is there a better way to do this?
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Hi,
NOTE: first, I thought sql developer tool is causing this and I opened a thread on that category, thanks to @rp0428's warnings and advises, I realized that something else is happening. so reopened this thread in that category, I also need an admin to delete other one:
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2420515&tstart=0
thanks.
so my problem is:
I have table partitioned by range (no subpartition) on a DATE column per months. It has almost 100 partitions. I run a query on that table based on partition column:
select *
from   hareket_table
where islem_tar between to_date('01/05/2012', 'dd/mm/yyyy') and to_date('14/07/2012', 'dd/mm/yyyy') -- ISLEM_TAR is my partition column.so, when I run this query from sql developer, query works parallel. I didnt just get execution plan via sql developer interface, first I used "EXPLAIN PLAN FOR" statement (which I always do, I dont use developer tools interfaces generally) then used developer interface (just to be sure) but I didnt satisfied and then I run the query and and get real execution plan via:
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as I know, if I'm wrong please correct me, there is no reason to oracle run this query as parallel (I also did not give any hint). so I worried and run the same steps in "plsql developer" and query runs noparallel (inteface, explain plan for, dbms_xplan.display_cursor). sqlplus autotrace was the same( just autotrace, didnt try others dbms_xplan etc.) Based on that, I decided sql developer is causing to this (*edit: but I was wrong TOAD did same thing*).
so I focused on sql developer and I disabled parallel query using:
alter session disable parallel query;then run the statement again and there were no Parallelism (expectedly).
so looked for execution plans:
I run query twice. one with normal, one with session disabled parallel query. and look for executed execution plan for both. (child 0 and 1)
-- WHEN PARALLEL QUERY IS ENABLE, SESSION DEFAULT
-- JUST CONNECTED TO DATABASE
select * from table(dbms_xplan.display_cursor('7cm8cz0k1y0zc', 0, 'OUTLINE'));
| Id | Operation            | Name          | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     | Pstart| Pstop |    TQ |IN-OUT| PQ Distrib |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT     |               |       |       | 2025 (100)|          |       |       |        |      |            |
|   1 | PX COORDINATOR      |               |       |       |            |          |       |       |        |      |            |
|   2 |   PX SEND QC (RANDOM)| :TQ10000      | 7910K| 1267M| 2025   (2)| 00:00:01 |       |       | Q1,00 | P->S | QC (RAND) |
|   3 |    PX BLOCK ITERATOR |               | 7910K| 1267M| 2025   (2)| 00:00:01 |    90 |    92 | Q1,00 | PCWC |            |
|* 4 |     TABLE ACCESS FULL| HAREKET_TABLE | 7910K| 1267M| 2025   (2)| 00:00:01 |    90 |    92 | Q1,00 | PCWP |            |
Outline Data
/*+
      BEGIN_OUTLINE_DATA
      IGNORE_OPTIM_EMBEDDED_HINTS
      OPTIMIZER_FEATURES_ENABLE('11.2.0.2')
      DB_VERSION('11.2.0.2')
      OPT_PARAM('query_rewrite_enabled' 'false')
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      ALL_ROWS
      OUTLINE_LEAF(@"SEL$1")
      FULL(@"SEL$1" "HAREKET_TABLE"@"SEL$1")
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   4 - access(:Z>=:Z AND :Z<=:Z)
       filter(("ISLEM_TAR">=TO_DATE(' 2012-05-14 00:00:00', 'syyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss') AND "ISLEM_TAR"<=TO_DATE('
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--WHEN DISABLED PARALLEL QUERY
--AFTER CONNECTED, EXECUTED "ALTER SESSION DISABLE PARALLEL QUERY"
select * from table(dbms_xplan.display_cursor('7cm8cz0k1y0zc', 1, 'OUTLINE'));
| Id | Operation                | Name          | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     | Pstart| Pstop |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT         |               |       |       | 36504 (100)|          |       |       |
|   1 | PARTITION RANGE ITERATOR|               | 7910K| 1267M| 36504   (2)| 00:00:04 |    90 |    92 |
|* 2 |   TABLE ACCESS FULL      | HAREKET_TABLE | 7910K| 1267M| 36504   (2)| 00:00:04 |    90 |    92 |
Outline Data
/*+
      BEGIN_OUTLINE_DATA
      IGNORE_OPTIM_EMBEDDED_HINTS
      OPTIMIZER_FEATURES_ENABLE('11.2.0.2')
      DB_VERSION('11.2.0.2')
      OPT_PARAM('query_rewrite_enabled' 'false')
      OPT_PARAM('optimizer_index_cost_adj' 30)
      OPT_PARAM('optimizer_index_caching' 50)
      ALL_ROWS
      OUTLINE_LEAF(@"SEL$1")
      FULL(@"SEL$1" "HAREKET_TABLE"@"SEL$1")
      END_OUTLINE_DATA
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   2 - filter(("ISLEM_TAR">=TO_DATE(' 2012-05-14 00:00:00', 'syyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss') AND
              "ISLEM_TAR"<=TO_DATE(' 2012-07-14 00:00:00', 'syyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss')))
as you can see, when I've just connected to database (no any statements run) OPT_PARAM('optimizer_dynamic_sampling' 6) is in my stats.
when I disable parallel query on the session, this is not in stats...
value of optimizer_dynamic_sampling is 2 in DB. so why is that query runs parallel ? I don't want that.
thanks for answers

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NOTE: first, I thought sql developer tool is causing this and I opened a thread on that category, thanks to @rp0428's warnings and advises, I realized that something else is happening. so reopened this thread in that category, I also need an admin to delete other one:
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2420515&tstart=0
as you can see, when I've just connected to database (no any statements run) OPT_PARAM('optimizer_dynamic_sampling' 6) is in my stats.
when I disable parallel query on the session, this is not in stats...
value of optimizer_dynamic_sampling is 2 in DB. so why is that query runs parallel ? I don't want that.
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I answered this question in that other thread, that is now gone. I pointed you to, and quoted from, a blog that tells you EXACTLY why that is happening. And I also gave you a link to an article by Oracle ACE and noted author Jonathan Lewis. You either didn't see the links or didn't read them.
Maria Colgan is an Oracle developer and a member of the optimizer developer team. She has many article on the net that talk about the optimizer, how it works, how to use it.
The one I pointed you to, and quoted from, is titled 'Dynamic sampling and its impact on the Optimizer'
https://blogs.oracle.com/optimizer/entry/dynamic_sampling_and_its_impact_on_the_optimizer
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For serial SQL statements the dynamic sampling level will depend on the value of the OPTIMIZER_DYNAMIC_SAMPLING parameter and will not be triggered automatically by the optimizer. The reason for this is that serial statements are typically short running and any overhead at compile time could have a huge impact on their performance. Where as we expect parallel statements to be more resource intensive, so the additional overhead at compile time is worth it to ensure we can be best execution plan.
In our original example the SQL statement is serial, which is why we needed to manual set the value for OPTIMIZER_DYNAMIC_SAMPLING parameter. If we were to issue a similar style of query against a larger table that had the parallel attribute set we can see the dynamic sampling kicking in.
You should also note that setting OPTIMIZER_FEATURES_ENABLE to 9.2.0 or earlier will disable dynamic sampling all together.
When should you use dynamic sampling? DS is typically recommended when you know you are getting a bad execution plan due to complex predicates. However, you should try and use an alter session statement to set the value for OPTIMIZER_DYNAMIC_SAMPLING parameter as it can be extremely difficult to come up with a system-wide setting.
When is it not a good idea to use dynamic sampling? If the queries compile times need to be as fast as possible, for example, unrepeated OLTP queries where you can't amortize the additional cost of compilation over many executions.
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If you read the article and particularly the first two paragraphs above Maria expalins why dynamic sampling was used in your case. And for a table with as many partitions as yours Oracle chose to use sampling level six (256 blocks, see article); a level of two would only sample 64 blocks and you have 90+ partitions. Oracle needs a good sample of partitions.
The Jonathan Lewis article is titled 'Dynamic Sampling'
http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/dynamic-sampling/
This article can also shed light on sampling as he shows how it appears that sampling isn't being used and then shows that it actually is
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We can see that we have statistics.
We can see that we delete 9002 rows
We can see that we have 998 rows left
We can see that the plan (and especially the cardinality of the full tablescan) doesn’t change even though we included a table-level hint to do dynamic sampling.
Moreoever – we can’t see the usual note that you get when the plan is dependent on a dynamic sample (” – dynamic sampling used for this statement”).
It looks as if dynamic sampling hasn’t happened.
However, I “know” that dynamic sampling is supposed to happen unconditionally when you use a table-level hint – so I’m not going to stop at this point. There are cases where you just have to move on from explain plan (or autotrace) and look at the 10053 trace.
So the optimizer did do dynamic sampling, but then decided that it wasn’t going to use the results for this query.

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