What is Oracle Exadata

Notes: Data appliance Server with preinstalled and pre optimised database Hardware designed to work with the database software specifically Pre configured clustered database server Exalogic is a preconfigured clustered application server Exadata is a pre configured clustered database server There are other products but they are targeted at OLAP specifically (read rather than write) Exadata supports OLTP and OLAP The first …

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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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