Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata and the Sun Oracle Database Machine

Description

Maximize Oracle Exadata Capabilities

Leverage all of the powerful features available in the Oracle Exadata Database Machine using the proven techniques inside this Oracle Press guide. Written by Oracle experts, Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata shows you how to take full advantage of this complete, optimized package of software, servers, and storage. Best practices for enterprise deployments, high availability, administration, backup and recovery, data warehousing, online transaction processing, consolidation, and migration are included in this authoritative resource.

* Take advantage of the tightly integrated hardware and software in the Oracle Exadata Database Machine
* Work with Oracle Exadata software features, including Smart Scans, Oracle Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression, storage indexes, Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache, and I/O Resource Manager
* Understand Oracle Exadata Database Machine balanced hardware architecture
* Architect, administer, and monitor Oracle Exadata Storage Servers
* Deploy data warehouses on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine
* Run online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine
* Consolidate databases with and migrate databases to the Oracle Exadata Database Machine

CONTENTS:

Part I: Features and Foundations
Chapter 1: Oracle and Tightly Integrated Hardware and Software Platforms
Chapter 2: Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition Features
Chapter 3: Exadata Software Features
Chapter 4: Oracle Exadata Database Machine Platform Hardware Components
Part II: Best Practices
Chapter 5: Managing the Exadata Database Machine
Chapter 6: High Availability and Backup Strategies
Chapter 7: Deploying Data Warehouses on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine
Chapter 8: Exadata and OLTP
Chapter 9: Consolidating Databases with the Oracle Exadta Database Machine
Chapter 10: Migrating to the Exadata Database Machine
 Appendix: Exadata Capacity and Performance Specifications