Expert Oracle Exadata, Second Edition

Introduction

Thank you very much for buying the second edition of Expert Oracle Exadata. Us current authors have been standing on the shoulders of giants while putting this together. Whenever writing a second edition of a successful book, the authors face the pressure of creating at least as good, if not better, edition than the first edition was. And good it was, the first edition. We hope that we have been able to provide you, dear reader, with a suitable introduction to Exadata. In fact, our hope is to give you enough information to get started with Exadata. It is not uncommon to find database administrators in situations where they have been introduced to Exadata. only to ask the question, “Now what?” We have tried to structure the book to ...