RE: Partitioning Question (3 of several)

From: Michael Fontana <mfontana_at_verio.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:50:43 -0500
Message-ID: <004101c4a1a6$9f803880$1d0c0a0a@corp.verio.net>

Here's a gotcha that is not technical, per se, but could cost your company a lot of money:

Oracle CHARGES EXTRA if partitioning is used, and it is not cheap. The list price is 10k per processor (not CPU, but PROCESSOR)! This is not covered in the manuals anywhere, and of course Oracle's manuals and tech support personnel will quite often and quite rightly recommend it as a valid method to address performance and data pruning issues.

This will only come to light the next time you have a licensing review. We just got hit with a $500k bill which we're trying to negotiate down...

Michael Fontana
Sr. DBA
NTT/Verio

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of david wendelken Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:58 PM
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Subject: Partitioning Question (3 of several)

Are there any "gotcha's" about using partitioning that are not obvious to someone who's reading the manuals carefully? Things that will make one's life miserable until fixed?

Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com

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