In this release, the SFDB tools provide the Compression Advisor tool for Oracle databases.

Veritas File System (VxFS) provides the vxcompress utility that can be used to compress individual files transparent to the underlying applications. An application reading a compressed file automatically receives the uncompressed data that is uncompressed in memory only; the on-disk part of the data remains compressed. If an application writes to a compressed file, parts of the file are uncompressed on disk.

Compression Advisor provides extended compression functionality for Oracle database files in Oracle single instance and Oracle RAC environments. The Compression Advisor command sfae_comp_adm resides in the /opt/VRTS/bin directory, and it must be run by the DBA user.