Compression

Red Gate have asked me to write a few articles for their Oracle site, so I’ve sent them a short series on “traditional” compression in Oracle – which means I won’t be mentioning Exadata hybrid columnar compression (HCC a.k.a. EHCC). There will be five articles, published at the rate of one per week starting Tuesday (15th Jan). I’ll be supplying links for them as they are published.

• Basic Compression – the mechanics
• Basic Compression – the implications
• OLTP compression
• Index Compression – the mechanics
• Index compression – the implications