Re: Dataguard Licensing

Is this logical standby or a reporting db or something? Just curious about co-locating a standby on the same physical hardware.

Niall

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> We just purchased EE for our new IBM series Z9. Our sales people told us
> one thing and when we went to sign the contract, it stated something else.
> We finally got it resolved--DG was not a seperate cost. However, we had to
> license Oracle for both servers, primary and standby. Because we're on the
> z9 and will be using VMs, we got lucky and can get away with a single
> license.
>
> Sandy
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Goulet, Dick <
> richard.goulet_at_capgemini.com> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> >
> >
> > The last I got from the Oracle bigwigs down here at a
> > training day was that Data Guard was a zero cost option IF you have EE
> > licensed. For all others it's the old extra dollars trick. Also on the
> > second db, IF you are using it ONLY as a DR solution then it does not have
> > to be licensed, the presumption is that when you switch over to the standby
> > your license to use the database moves as well similar to when you replace
> > one server with s different one of equal capacity. Now the meaning of "ONLY
> > as a DR solution" is subject to interpretation, especially if your DR box is
> > of higher capacity than the main server. The clients that I'm currently
> > working with got Oracle to say OK provided that we only switch over and
> > opened the database twice a year as a DR test. As Dan puts it correctly,
> > contact your sales rep before believing anything, including this message.
> >
> >
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________
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> >
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