What Is Exadata?

Offloading / Smart Scan

Hybrid Columnar Compression

Storage Indexes

Exadata Smart Flash Cache

Exadata Parallel Operations

Resource Management

Configuring Exadata

Recovering Exadata

Exadata Wait Events

Understanding Exadata Performance Metrics

Monitoring Exadata Performance

Migrating to Exadata

Storage Layout

Compute Node Layout

Unlearning Some Things We Thought We Knew

Patching

Appendix A: CELLCL and DCLI

Appendix B: Online Exadata Resources

Appendix C: Diagnostic Scripts

Appendix D: Exachk

About the Author

Randy Johnson is a principal consultant at Enkitec, a consulting firm specializing in Oracle. Randy has more than 18 years of experience with Oracle, beginning with Oracle 7 during the early 1990s. Much of his career has combined Oracle database administration with Unix administration duties. Over the last five years, Randy focused almost exclusively on real application clusters and automatic storage management. He is also an authority on Oracle backup and recovery via RMAN, having written a popular utility for automating RMAN scripts called Dixie. Randy occasionally blogs at http://blog.enkitec.com.

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