Re: Re Oracle Licensing

Mladen,

I'm confused. How does that apply to a running instance? A running instance requires the binaries be installed afaik.

Chris

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 5:19 PM Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com wrote:

> Actually, it doesn't. You can install SQL*Developer which contains
> Oracle JDBC driver and can connect to almost anything newer than Oracle
> 8i. You can also install Instant*Client which is completely free and
> also includes both JDBC and ODBC clients. Instant client contains
> SQL*Plus. You can also install various open source GUI stuff on top of
> the instant client. Most notable open source, GUI tools on top of the
> instant client are DBeaver-CE, SQLSquirrel, Eclipse, DBD::Oracle and
> Tora. SQL*Developer and SQLcl are free but not open source. I assure you
> that all of the above can run Oracle queries.
>
> On 11/13/18 4:43 PM, Chris Taylor wrote:
> > In my companies case a running database requires installed binaries -
> > which is a licensing concern.
>
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