Expert Oracle Exadata, 2nd Edition -

"Okay, old friend," he whispered. "Let’s see what we’re missing."

He didn't start with the basics. He skipped straight to the chapters on and Storage Indexes . He realized he’d been treating the Exadata like a traditional SAN. He was moving too much data to the compute nodes when he should have been letting the storage cells do the heavy lifting. Expert Oracle Exadata, 2nd Edition

: He tuned the Smart Flash Log to handle the redo write spikes that happened at 4:15 AM sharp. "Okay, old friend," he whispered

: He used IORM (I/O Resource Manager) to ensure the Morning Crunch didn't starve the real-time tracking apps. Expert Oracle Exadata, 2nd Edition

: He reconfigured the predicate filtering. He wanted the storage cells to discard the junk before it ever hit the network.