Why you should use oracle advanced compression

• Explosion in Data Volumes
• As data volume expands performance often declines
• Disk costs money
• Transparent to applications, SQL, and PL/SQL
• Use spare CPU cycles to decrease the bytes written and read
• Transparent to applications, SQL, and PL/SQL
• May improve performance by requiring the transfer of  fewer bytes from disk through the network, into the CPU,  to be stored in the buffer cache
• Increase the amount of data stored on existing disk
• Compression is performed at the block level
• Data Guard Network Compression
• Data Pump Compression
• Fast RMAN Compression
• OLTP Table Compression

References

• http://www.morganslibrary.com/pres/ougf_advcomp_2009.pdf