Inevitably there’s still excitement and uncertainty in the air about Exadata – and/or the Database Machine. For ease of reference and a jolly good read I’ve started collecting a few blog postings about it:
Jason Arneil’s Blog
Pythian
- Part 1 – mostly hardware
- Part 2 – mostly software
- Part 3 – build and license
- Storage Indexes
- Making the most of Storage indexes
- Making the most of Exadata
- Column limit removed
- What’s in your smart flash cache
Kerry Osborne
Kevin Closson
- Complete catalogue of his many Exadata posts
- A 60 second briefing
- Some interesting statistics
- Critical Analysis meets Exadata (links to 2 videos)
Tanel Poder
Uwe Hesse
- Part 1 – Smart Scan
- Part 2 – Storage Indexes
- Part 3 – Compression
- Part 4 – Flash Cache
- Part 5 – Monitoring with Database Control
- Part 6 – Cell Administration with dcli
- Part 7 – Disk Layers
- Important stats and wait events
- Stats collection and smart scan

Chet Justice has a good set of links too, here: http://www.oraclenerd.com/2010/06/exadata-learning-resources.html
Comment by rnm1978 — September 17, 2010 @ 1:37 pm UTC Sep 17,2010 |