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Bryan,
Listen to Tim. It's not your fault that Oracle auto-installs this stuff. If/when they ask, simply tell them you are not using the features. And tell your management that you cannot un-install the stuff without there being a risk of breaking the database itself.
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Tim Gorman
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:55 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Oracle Options
Bryan,
Leave them alone. It doesn't matter if they are installed, just whether
or
not you are using them. And, as you've seen and heard in responses, it
is
non-trivial and dangerous to try to remove them. Leave them alone and
don't
worry about it.
Oracle takes the full onus for this, having all these options
inter-dependent on one another and installed by default besides. They
are
hoping that you will indeed buy after trying. The implication here is,
if
you use them, you buy.
Don't use what you don't want to license. License only what you are
going
to use, and the rest goes by the honor system. If Oracle doesn't
believe
you are playing fair and wants to audit you, then they will ask to do
so,
and there are some pretty mundane ways to detect if you indeed are (or
are
not) using these different options or whether they were just installed
by
default.
Don't sweat it.
-Tim
on 5/18/05 8:58 AM, mkb at mkb125_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Yes, that should work for most of the installed
> options except partitioning since that does not have a
> corresponding user.
>=20
>=20
>=20
>> sorry. lack of information on my part. i inherited
>> these, as they were
>> turned on at the original install time.
>> so its not just a matter of dropping the user
>> ("cascade") that was created
>> at the time of install?
>> On 5/18/05, Thomas Day <tomday2_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> Don't install them. There is no "turn them on/turn
>> them off" option.
>>> --
>>> http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
>>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> --=20
>> Bryan S Wells - DBA Newbie
>> bunjibry_at_gmail.com
>>=20
>> --
>> http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
>>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
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