Re: Oracle License for Optional Packs Question

From: Fairlie Rego <fairlie.rego_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:53:00 +1100
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And to add to this there was an ER created to look into providing a way to disable advanced compression.

Bug 14079401 : CUSTOMERS NEED A WAY OF DISABLING THE ADVANCED COMPRESSION FEATURE I do not believe there are any plans to implement it though

Ta
Fairlie

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> The advanced compression option is extremely difficult to not accidentally
> use. It's literally everywhere:
>
> - Datapump export (but only if you compress the data, metadata-compression
> is "free")
> - Data Guard redo compression (which you can conveniently enable in the
> broker which may lead people to think it's a broker-feature and has nothing
> to do with the advanced compression option inside the database)
> - Securefile compression
> - Table & Index compression (this one is kinda obvious)
> - Flashback archives with OPTIMIZE DATA turned on
> - Heat map features in 12c
> - RMAN Backup compression (anything other than 'BASIC')
> - Online partition move (even to basic compression - this one is really
> evil)
> - ... and there's more: https://docs.oracle.com/
> database/122/DBLIC/Licensing-Information.htm#GUID-AB56CEE3-
> 955E-4E56-8B44-6075E889C283
>
>
> It's a really sneaky way of pushing this option into so many different
> things, and make it really easy to accidentally trigger it somewhere.
>
>
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