graeme.fairley_at_wpcorp.com.au (Graeme) wrote in message news:<cdb46c1.0202121915.44847af6_at_posting.google.com>...
> We are running Oracle Enterprise edtion on our Solaris server. Early
> last year we upgraded from Oracle 7.3 to Oracle 8.1.7. As part of the
> upgrade, the Oracle Partitioning binaries were installed. (It appears
> that this feature is installed as part of "TYPICAL" install - to
> prevent the installation, a "CUSTOM" install is required, and the
> PARTITIONING option must be removed.) Not realising that partitioning
> is licensed separately, we continued with the install.
>
> As we run a data warehouse, with large tables we decided to make use
> of the Partitioning option. It took several months of work in a test
> environment to get these options correct and tune the DB, but we
> recieved considerable performance benefits.
>
> Only after implementing this, did our Oracle rep. inform us that we
> are using an unlicenced product (the partitioing option). We are now
> in a situation where we will have to back out PARTITIONING (and upset
> our clients/users) or pay the high cost for partitioning.
>
> Has anyone else had similar experiences?
> Are people using partitioning aware that it is not licenced with the
> Enterprise Edition, but is an extra?
>
> Next thing you know, we will discover that indexes are not licesenced!
I think that this is a well known fact. Partitioning is an extra
option and you must pay for it. Our policy is to use EE for ordinary
databases and if something grow to much, then partitioning is used and
of course some bucks are spend for it. I see no problem here.
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Received on Wed Feb 13 2002 - 01:45:04 CST
