Exadata has many compelling technical advantages. When Exadata is deployed with ZFS, the results are capabilities beyond the sum of the part. I'd like to share experience gained from using these technologies together, in an manner beyond conventional consideration.

Original Broadcast: 4.10.15 Oracle Exadata Database Machine combines hardware and software to accelerate performance, increase capacity, and improve efficiency and quality of service for database deployments. This session will provide an overview of the updated Exadata hardware and in depth analysis of the latest features of the Exadata storage server software. Learn how to utilize…

Session about potential unexpected problem and issues you can hit during patching your exadata. What things should be done in advance to avoid frustration and dissappointment.

The subject is how to prolong life for your exadata when it has exhausted all capacity and cannot support existing load. I am going to discuss about upgrading,expanding and reconfiguring exadata machines. In one case it could be old exadata which is replaced by a newer version and in another case it could be a…

Exadata has been come the engineered system of choice when talking about high performance and databases.  Although Exadata is a great system, Oracle recommends that health checks be performed on an Exadata at least once a month to ensure performance and reliability of the system.  With this expectation Oracle provides a utility called Exachk.  ExaChk…

Data warehouses on Exadata is the fastest Oracle database you can get. Running RAC is mandatory to leverage all CPUs available accross a cluster of machines. Making efficient use of all available CPUs when processing data warehouse workloads is therefore critical in achieving maximum performance. Skilled use of parallel queries is key. In this presentation…

Big data is a big deal these days. Every CTO read about it and believes that with the right technology it is possible to deliver meaningful business insights from massive amounts of information in real time. And they are correct. However, many IT shops also believe that you need cutting technologies like NoSQL and Hadoop…

As more and more customer moving to towards engineered server to consolidate and migration, both custom and packaged application on to Oracle Database Exadata machine to get reliable performance, stability and High availability for the Business Needs. And with that in place how does an oracle application database running on regular commodity hardware can be…

Even though Exadata is generation proof and can support multiple generations in a rack, there comes a time when it is more effective to swap the old hardware out for the newest hardware, the X5-2. In this session, the journey of life cycle a full rack of X2-2 + half rack of X2-2 storage expansion…

Exadata is giving you mind-blowing performance; however, you notice the performance is not very consistent. Response times vary depending on time of day and current workload. If anything is as bad as poor performance it's inconsistent performance. Where do you turn? Exadata comes with the solution, IO Resource Management (IORM), but it is often overlooked…