Brian Spendolini - Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service: A Beginners Guide

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This book is dedicated to my wife, Jenny. The immeasurable amount of wisdom and countless life lessons she has imparted upon me continue to shape and guide my path through life, with the most important one being, Just Relax.

Brian Spendolini is currently the product manager of Oracles Exadata Cloud Service and previously served as a product manager for the Oracle Enterprise Database Cloud Service (DBCS). Brian started Oracle back in 2000 when there were no camera phones and has been in multiple roles and positions, from sales to support. He lives with his family on the west side of a volcano.

Jeffrey Cowen is an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Associate with more than 18 years of IT experience, 10 years of which have been working with Exadata. He has been working with Exadata since its inception, specializing in the Exadata Cloud Service since it was released in the Oracle Public Cloud. At Oracle, Jeffrey is considered an expert in the Exadata Cloud Service and has delivered many successful proofs of concept, demonstrating to customers the power of Exadata in the Cloud.

T he Exadata Database Machine has traditionally been a hardware-only service, purchased and placed in your data center for you to manage, from top to bottom. With the Exadata Cloud Service, Oracle brings the power of the Exadata into anyones hands with a few simple clicks, simplifying a once lengthy and time-consuming process into a single web page.

The book starts with creating the Exadata Cloud Service and the components that go into its creation. From networking to security, we cover the steps to create a full Exadata in the Oracle Cloud. Next, youll create your first database on the service. Choose a version, backup strategy, and type, and in no time youll have a fully functioning database in the Cloud.

The next section covers all the cloud-based tooling, the special sauce of the Exadata Cloud Service. Use the tooling via REST services or from the command line; the book covers how to use each method and the functions within.

The next chapters of the book cover what makes an Exadata an Exadata. We start with query offloadinghow the Exadata Database Machine removes the database I/O bottleneck. The compression chapter covers Hybrid Columnar Compression, the built-in compression method that improves compression ratios up to 30 times.