Expert Oracle Exadata, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

The book you are holding in your hands, be it in electronic or printed form, has been a fair bit of work for everyone involved. The agile development on the Exadata platform was in many ways a blessing and a curse—a blessing because you could appreciate the improvements introduced with every release, and a curse because the new features should be in the book, causing more work. … This project has been one of the longest I have been involved in, and I would like to thank my family (again!) for letting me spend a lot of time researching and writing for what turned out to be a long period of time. I’ll try and make up for it, promise! Personally participating in the organization and writing were hugely rewarding as they allowed me ...