CHAPTER 7Deploying Data Warehouses on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine
When Oracle first launched the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, it was aimed only at the broad solution area defined as data warehousing. The reason why the initial focus was on data warehousing was simple. Predesigned hardware configurations are well accepted in the data warehousing market and were available from many of Oracle’s competitors. Over the past decade, they have evolved from providing merely balanced server and storage configurations containing fast interconnects to delivering hardware-specific optimizations for typical data warehousing workloads.
Although Oracle’s entry into this arena of providing integrated hardware and software solutions is relatively recent, ...
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