Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata

Rick Greenwald, has been active in the computer industry for more than 25 years. He is currently Director, Oracle Partner Enablement at Oracle where he has worked for more than 10 years. He is also the author or coauthor of more than 15 books, including the best selling Oracle Essentials for O’Reilly & Associates, now in its fourth edition, Beginning Oracle Application Express from Wiley, and Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solutions from Wiley. Robert (Bob) Stackowiak, VP, Enterprise Solutions, Oracle, has worked for over 20 years in the IT industry. His roles that have included software development, management of software development, systems engineering, sales and sales consulting, and business development. Bob has spoken at numerous computer related conferences and has conducted briefings with companies based around the world. He has coauthored several book including Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 11g (4th Edition) by O’Reilly and Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solutions by Wiley. Additionally, his papers regarding data warehousing and computer and software technology have appeared in publications such as The Data Warehousing Institute's Journal of Data Warehousing and Data Warehousing Trends and Applications. Maqsood Alam is a Director of Product Management at Oracle and has over 17 years of experience in architecting, building and evangelizing enterprise and system software. Maqsood is a pure technologist at heart and has a wide range of expertise, ranging from parallel and distributed systems to high performance database applications and Big Data. His current initiatives at Oracle are focused on Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database 12c and the Oracle Big Data Appliance. He is the coauthor on the book Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata published by McGraw-Hill, and also of several whitepapers and best practices dealing with various Oracle technologies. He is an Oracle Certified Professional and holds a Masters and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science. Mans Bhuller, Senior Director, Enterprise Solutions, Oracle, has worked at the forefront of emerging technologies at Oracle Corporation for the last 13 years. He currently runs the Database, Grid and Systems Management architecture practice within Oracle's Enterprise Solutions Group. In this role he has been paving the way for the Sun Oracle database machine and other foundational technologies such as Real Application Clusters (RAC), Private Cloud and GRID.

• Part I: Features and FoundationsChapter 1: Oracle and Tightly Integrated Hardware and Software Platforms Chapter 2: Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition FeaturesChapter 3: Exadata Software FeaturesChapter 4: Oracle Exadata Database Machine Platform Hardware ComponentsPart II: Best PracticesChapter 5: Managing the Exadata Database MachineChapter 6: High Availability and Backup StrategiesChapter 7: Deploying Data Warehouses on the Oracle Exadata Database MachineChapter 8: Exadata and OLTPChapter 9: Consolidating Databases with the Oracle Exadta Database MachineChapter 10: Migrating to the Exadata Database MachineAppendix: Exadata Capacity and Performance Specifications