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Oracle does 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 we need to attack some problems with a completely different mindset. That is not to say that everything is different. 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 fundamentally different.
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” ~ Mark Twain
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© 2011 Kerry Osborne, Randy Johnson, Tanel Pöder
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Osborne, K., Johnson, R., Pöder, T. (2011). Unlearning Some Things We Thought We Knew. In: Expert Oracle Exadata. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3393-0_16
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