As a member of the Real-World Performance Group at Oracle I have participated in quite a number of Exadata POCs over the past two years. Often times those POCs are constrained in a number of ways: time, schema/app modifications, etc., because the objective is a proof, not a full blown migration. As a result...
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The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing – Partitioning
Partitioning is an essential performance feature for an Oracle data warehouse because partition elimination (or partition pruning) generally results in the elimination of a significant amount of table data to be scanned. This results in a need for less system resources and improved query performance. Someone once told me “the fastest...
The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing – Balanced Hardware Configuration
If you want to build a house that will stand the test of time, you need to build on a solid foundation. The same goes for architecting computer systems that run databases. If the underlying hardware is not sized appropriately it will likely lead to people blaming software. All too often...
The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing – Introduction
At the 2009 Oracle OpenWorld Unconference back in October I lead a chalk and talk session entitled The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing. Since this was a chalk and talk I spared the audience any powerpoint slides but I had several people request that make it into a presentation so they could...
The Best Benchmarketing I've Seen Yet: Measure BI Queries In Milliseconds
After posting about how ridiculous some of the benchmarketing claims that database vendors are making, Dave Menninger, VP of Marketing & Product Management at Vertica posted a comment that one of their customers reported a 40,400x gain in one query (this of course is after I openly joked about the 16,200x Vertica claim). So...