Re: Downgrade from Enterprise to Standard

On Fri, 31 May 2002 19:41:41 -0400, "Mark Wagoner" <mwagoner_at_iac.net> wrote:

>A company I am contracting with purchased a 3rd party app that uses Oracle
>for the backend. It turns out the vendor installed 8i Enterprise but,
>according to the invoice, only charged licensing for Standard (actually, all
>they left was a bootleg copy of the Oracle CD, but that is a whole 'nother
>story). Given the cost difference combined with the fact that there is no
>benefit to using Enterprise in this case, the company is obviously not
>wanting to pay for the vendor's mistake.
>
>After pointing this out, the vendor claims they can come back in and
>downgrade the server from Enterprise to Standard. Now, a few years ago I
>worked for a software company that also packaged Oracle with the product,
>and I swear I was told once that you can upgrade but there is not way to
>downgrade. This would require an export/reinstall/import, and even that
>would fail if you were using any of the Enterprise features.
>
>My fear is the vendor is going to come in and trash the server. Based on
>past experiences with these people I have zero confidence in their ability,
>but I don't want to challenge them on this if there really is a way to
>downgrade the software. If it wasn't for the loss of time and data (there
>is about 6 months of data in the database), I would gladly sit back and
>watch just to see them sweat when it doesn't work. Unfortunately I don't
>have that luxury.
>
>Does anyone know for sure if this is possible or not?
>
>Thanks
>

I doubt whether the exp/imp business is really necessary, but there is no other way than to deinstall enterprise and reinstall standard. The 'Enterprise' doesn't have extra executables or dll's or whatever.

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Fri May 31 2002 - 23:51:43 CDT