Part I. Overview

This part of the book contains introductory information about parallel processing and why it’s important in an Oracle environment. It consists of the following chapters:

Chapter 1, introduces the concept of parallel processing, explains its potential performance advantages, and describes the Oracle parallel technologies.

Chapter 2, describes the main parallel architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP), Massively Parallel Processing (MPP), clusters, and Non Uniform Memory Architectures (NUMA).

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