Re: Oracle Hungry for Money

Well, to save you money on that oracle introduced new feature in 9i: "MERGE" (when you don't know where to use INSERT or to UPDATE, if record exists):))

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
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> Does using UPDATE statements cost more money too? I heard that Oracle
wants
> to start charging based upon how many records you are going to insert,
> update, select AND delete!!! Amazing..........
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> Doesn't sound like a trick to me... Although I am sure they
> are out for money, after all that is what the sales folks do, SELL.
>
> If they had chosen to audit you the result would have been the same.
> You implemented you pay for it. Sounds fair to me within the grounds
> of Oracle pay through the teeth licensing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Canaan
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:03 AM
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>
> Watch out! I just got off the phone with our Oracle "sales rep". He
> was asking me if I needed information on Partitioning or OLAP for our
> data warehouse project. I told him that we are on 8.1.7, so the OLAP
> option isn't available. To keep him from going into a long speil on
> Partitioning, I told him that I have already implemented that, which is
> true.
> He jumped on that and told me that we aren't licensed for it. He
> followed up with sending me a quote for $23,800 to cover the fact that
> we are using the option, which we didn't pay for. I was always told
> that we have a "site" license (higher ed), and he said that our license
> was purchased prior to Partioning being available, so that doesn't
> count.
>
> I'm telling everyone about this as a heads-up. It appears that Oracle
> is digging for money, and I feel that the approach that was used was
> done to trick me into admitting that I had implemented the feature.
>
> --
> Scott Canaan (srcdco_at_rit.edu)
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