CHAPTER 17

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Unlearning Some Things We Thought We Knew

Oracle can do some things very differently when running on Exadata than when running on non-Exadata platforms. The optimizations provided by Exadata are designed to take a different approach than Oracle has traditionally followed. This change means that you need to attack some problems with a different mindset. That is not to say that everything is different—quite the contrary. In fact, most of the fundamental principles remain unchanged. After all, the same database software runs on Exadata that runs on other platforms. But there are some things that are just different. As you read in Chapter ...

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