Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata / Edition 1

Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0071752595
ISBN-13:
9780071752596
Pub. Date:
02/11/2011
Publisher:
McGraw Hill LLC
ISBN-10:
0071752595
ISBN-13:
9780071752596
Pub. Date:
02/11/2011
Publisher:
McGraw Hill LLC
Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata / Edition 1

Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata / Edition 1

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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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780071752596
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date: 02/11/2011
Series: Oracle Press
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Maqsood Alam is a Director of Product Management at Oracle and has over 17 years of experience in architecting, building and evangelizing enterprise and system software. Maqsood is a pure technologist at heart and has a wide range of expertise, ranging from parallel and distributed systems to high performance database applications and Big Data. His current initiatives at Oracle are focused on Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database 12c and the Oracle Big Data Appliance. He is the coauthor on the book Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata published by McGraw-Hill, and also of several whitepapers and best practices dealing with various Oracle technologies. He is an Oracle Certified Professional and holds a Masters and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science.

Robert (Bob) Stackowiak, VP, Enterprise Solutions, Oracle, has worked for over 20 years in the IT industry. His roles that have included software development, management of software development, systems engineering, sales and sales consulting, and business development. Bob has spoken at numerous computer related conferences and has conducted briefings with companies based around the world. He has coauthored several book including Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 11g (4th Edition) by O’Reilly and Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solutions by Wiley. Additionally, his papers regarding data warehousing and computer and software technology have appeared in publications such as The Data Warehousing Institute's Journal of Data Warehousing and Data Warehousing Trends and Applications.

Mans Bhuller, Senior Director, Enterprise Solutions, Oracle, has worked at the forefront of emerging technologies at Oracle Corporation for the last 13 years. He currently runs the Database, Grid and Systems Management architecture practice within Oracle's Enterprise Solutions Group. In this role he has been paving the way for the Sun Oracle database machine and other foundational technologies such as Real Application Clusters (RAC), Private Cloud and GRID.

Robert (Bob) Stackowiak is Vice President, Enterprise Solutions at Oracle. He has coauthored several books on Oracle technologies. Stackowiak's papers regarding data warehousing and computer and software technology have appeared in publications such as The Data Warehousing Institute's Journal of Data Warehousing and Data Warehousing Trends and Applications.

Rick Greenwald is Director of Oracle Partner Enablement at Oracle where he has worked for more than 10 years. He is also the author or coauthor of several books on Oracle technologies.

Maqsood Alam, OCP, is Senior Manager, Product Development at Oracle. He is focused on evangelizing Oracle Exadata, performing competitive benchmarks, promoting best practices for migrations into Oracle Exadata from Oracle and non-Oracle databases, and providing support to customers undergoing large Oracle Exadata implementations.

Mans Bhuller, Senior Director, Enterprise Solutions, Oracle, has worked at the forefront of emerging technologies at Oracle Corporation for the last 13 years. He currently runs the Database, Grid, and Systems Management architecture practice within Oracle's Enterprise Solutions Group where he has been paving the way for the Sun Oracle database machine and other foundational technologies.

Table of 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
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