Exadata Smart Scan

This is a pretty cheesy presentation but it gets some interesting points about exadata and smart scan over in only 3 minutes. Notes: Exadata offloads work to its storage servers which reduces the data that needs to travel over the network to the database servers. For example, the storage servers filter out rows that are …

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Perspectives on Exadata

This is a great discussion on and around Oracle Exadata by 2 performance tuning experts.     Notes: A very relaxed presentation on the ins and outs of Exadata from a performance tuning and optimization perspective.Skip to about 10 mins in to get past the introductions.Exadata isn’t a solution to all performance problems. You can …

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How to remove old RMAN backup files.

It is possible to use operating system commands such as rm on linux to delete RMAN backup files and generally recover from it, however you are far better using built in RMAN commands to do this. $ rman target / NOCATALOG First, check that all backup files are still available. This will show whether files …

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