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Expert Oracle Exadata, Second Edition
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Expert Oracle Exadata, Second Edition

by Martin Bach, Karl Arao, Andy Colvin, Frits Hoogland, Randy Johnson, Kerry Osborne, Tanel Poder
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
23h 1m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 1

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What Is Exadata?

No doubt, you already have a pretty good idea what Exadata is or you wouldn’t be holding this book in your hands. In our view, it is a preconfigured combination of hardware and software that provides a platform for running Oracle Database (either version 11g Release 2 or version 12c Release 1 as of this writing). Since the Exadata Database Machine includes a storage subsystem, different software has been developed to run at the storage layer. This has allowed Oracle product development to do some things that are just not possible on other platforms. In fact, Exadata really began its life as a storage system. If you ...

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