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Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service: A Beginner's Guide
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Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service: A Beginner's Guide

by Brian Spendolini
November 2018
Beginner
352 pages
8h 39m
English
McGraw-Hill
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CHAPTER 5

Smart Scans and Storage Indexes

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The next few chapters discuss the Exadata in the Exadata Cloud Service—what makes an Exadata so different from anything else any company has produced and why we can get hyper-fast performance from an engineered system. This chapter starts with the basics of what an Exadata Database Machine is and how all the pieces work together to deliver the best Oracle Database performance possible. After you understand how the Exadata hardware works, you’ll learn about one of its main features: query offloading.

The Exadata Database Machine Architecture

Exadata is what Oracle calls an “engineered system” (Figure ...

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