RE: Partitioning Question (3 of several)

NO, but they won't bug you is a check of DBA_TAB_PARTITIONS comes up = with zero rows.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:Rich.Jesse_at_quadtechworld.com] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:06 PM To: mfontana_at_verio.net; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: Partitioning Question (3 of several)

Doesn't "processor =3D3D cpu"?

Also, when installing 10g (on Linux), the Installer doesn't point out = =3D
that Partitioning is an extra option like it does with Spatial and =3D others. Did Oracle throw in the towel?

Rich

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Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:51 PM Subject: RE: Partitioning Question (3 of several)

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. =3D20

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
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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Thu Sep 23 2004 - 16:17:16 CDT