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CHAPTER 5 EXADATA SMART FLASH CACHEsystems. Offloading large portions of random read activity from the disks also provides an indirectbenefit to processes attempting to write to those same disks.While ESFC is generally thought of as an optimization aimed at reducing latency for small reads, itcan also be used quite effectively for large DW-type queries. In fact, the large throughput numbers that<strong>Oracle</strong> quotes depend on disk and flash cache being scanned concurrently. The flash cache actuallyshoulders the lion’s share of the burden in this case. You can enable this ability on specific tables bysetting the CELL_FLASH_CACHE attribute on the table to KEEP. This ability should not be overlooked for keytables, as the performance difference can be dramatic.142

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