Re: Re Oracle Licensing

A standby database ( and dev databases) has always* been licensable, and in the same way as the primary. The only exceptions will be if you specifically inserted a clause otherwise in your contract with Oracle, or if you are using named user licensing. That is unlikely to say the least. As an example, I offer the EMEA OLSA from June 2000 http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/olsa-ire-v122304-070683.pdf note the definition of processor.

I suspect this comes from the wording of the docs when Active Data Guard arrived

"*Oracle Data Guard 11g*
. Is included with Oracle Database Enterprise Edition - it does not require a separate license . It Includes all Data Guard capabilities from previous releases and many
other new features that enhance data protection, high availability, disaster recovery, and utilization of standby databases and systems"

The point of which was to distinguish between DataGuard being an EE feature and Active Data Guard being chargeable and not to indicate that DR was free.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:31 PM Iggy Fernandez <iggy_fernandez_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> The "policies" are explicitly non-contractual and may be revoked or
> changed by Oracle at any time. However, there is probably a good legal
> argument that you relied on them for guidance.
>
>
> *The Northern California Oracle Users Group is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3)
> organization that has been serving the Oracle Database community of
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> > This has the relevant answers you're looking for:
> >
> https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2Fassets%2Fdata-recovery-licensing-070587.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7Cbb144e6908e54b3be89608d649a3c0eb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636777364993336976&amp;sdata=DAXUy4xmkTLIBWamQpQ%2F%2FkgcAV4XGnPQN%2FfvlhZtraE%3D&amp;reserved=0
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> So, forgive me, but am I correct in thinking that my hot standby server
> now has to be licensed? And is supposed to have been since 2014?
>
> Even though, as long as it wasn't open, a standby never had to be licensed
> before 2014?
>
> Dave
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