Oracle Exadata Performance: Latest Improvements and Less Known Features

Here are the slides of a presentation I did at the IOUG Virtual Exadata conference in February. I’m explaining the basics of some new Oracle 12c things related to Exadata, plus current latest cellsrv improvements like Columnar Flash Cache and IO skipping for Min/Max retrieval using Storage Indexes:

Note that Christian Antognini and Roger MacNicol have written separate articles about some new features:

• http://antognini.ch/2015/03/exadata-storage-index-minmax-optimization/
• https://blogs.oracle.com/smartscan-deep-dive/entry/examining_the_new_columnar_cache

Enjoy!