Re: ASH droppings in bdump - 10.1.0.3 / win32

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:06:13 -0500, Paul Drake <bdbafh_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> win32 - w2k server sp4
> Oracle 10g - 10.1.0.3.
>
> how much of a nuisance is hundreds of these trace files, when we're
> not yet using ASH?
> (haven't yet worked out the licensing issues).

Hi Paul

Having just attended a 10g New Features course (I'm pretty sure I'll never attend a NF course again btw) I'm fairly convinced that the only supported way to avoid the pesky licensing issues is to set STATISTICS_LEVEL=BASIC as TYPICAL kicks in most if not all of the marvellous but pay extra for new features. As John K says there are a number of hidden parameters (got to be some way of getting the parameter count down whilst adding features right) that are relevant, I'd rather just set the one. You can query V$FEATURE_USAGE to see what would presumably turn up in an audit - though some of the tests are a little interesting

I will however be raising a tar and or query with our sales rep who claimed in passing when he was in trying to sell us app server on the cheap that 'we won't take away features that you already have available to you when you upgrade'. I currently think that this is essentially untrue.

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