This is the first entry in a series of random articles about some useful internals-to-know of the awesome Oracle Database In-Memory column store. I intend to write about Oracle’s IM stuff that’s not already covered somewhere else and also about some general CPU topics (that are well covered elsewhere, but not always so well known in the Oracle DBA/developer world). Before going into further details, you might want to review the Part 0 of this series and also our recent Oracle Database...