Re: standby licensing

My experience is that Oracle does not treat a standby any different than a production database (their comment will be that you did not get any cheap price for the hardware and according to Larry "you do not need a standby machine and waist hardware but run RAC"). Anyhow, since this is Oracle's view the this issue the licensing is fairly simple.   a.. If you have a named user license and you are (with the standby machine included) still within the named user minimum limitations, you do not need additional licensing. Example

    2 x one cpu machines. Current Oracle database license is 50 NU, -> no additional license required since no new Named Users are added and minimum licensing is met (minimum for EE is 10 Named User per CPU, minimum for SE is 5 Named User per CPU).

    2x two cpu machines, current Oracle database license is 20 NU --> additional licenses are required.
  a.. If you have a processor license the number of licenses should meet the number of processor.
(i would like to note that Oracle changes rules frequently so going trough your Oracle sales rep is the best way).

• Mark

"Jerzy Kedra" <jxa_at_xxxxxxxxxxx.onet.pl> wrote in message news:afa2jj$q5k$1_at_news.onet.pl...
> Hello,
>
> I would like to setup the standby for our primary database. I am not sure
> about extra license needs of standby database. I can't find any
information
> about standby licensing on Oracle site. How did you solve this problem?
>
> Jerzy Kedra
>
>
>
Received on Wed Jun 26 2002 - 07:50:24 CDT