Managing performance on Exadata can be tricky, partly because you’re using a RAC environment with two or more database nodes managed using Database Resource Manager
Tag: offloading
On Exadata, Sometimes Looks Can Be Deceiving
Sometimes performance on Exadata can be so good that you don’t think there’s a problem! I recently ran into a situation where an Exadata offloaded
Oracle Exadata Offloading Anomalies: How Much is DML a Factor?
I was testing a few of the functions identified in V$SQLFN_METADATA to see if some of the REGEXP-related functions were offloadable (they are!) and the
Can Exadata take you Beyond “Infinity and Beyond” with Non-Numbers?
Let me clarify… in a previous post, I showed some of the arithmetic around some of Oracle’s floating point literals and how that arithmetic didn’t
An Oracle Data Dictionary Anomaly: VARCHAR2, CLOB, and Exadata
A.K.A. The Serendipitous Nature of Debugging ORA- Errors There is usually an Exadata angle to my posts, and this one won’t disappoint. It started out
All Kinds of Exadata Stuff 