Tanel Põder wrote:
>>The Oracle 'equivalent' to Shareplex is Data Guard (not RAC), and in
>>fact a move to Data Guard (assuming you are already using Enterprise
>>Edition) would help you with your limted budget by saving you the cost
>>of Shareplex. Your Oracle licence costs would remain the same in both
>>scenarios.
>
>
> Would they?
>
> My understanding is that when you use Data Guard - which continuously
> receives and applies changes to standby database, requires additional
> licenses as with normal database.
> But if you use "poor man's standby" by transporting archivelogs manually or
> custom script and recovering on standby site, you don't have to by
> additional licenses if your standby is open less than 10 days per year?
>
> Tanel.
>
>
The 10 day exclusion policy applies to a failover environment, not to a
standby environment. Basically, if you have a copy of the data in a
seperate database, then the other database needs to be licenced as well,
no matter how you keep them in sync. See the SIG for guidance -
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/index.html?sig.html
Received on Sat Aug 14 2004 - 13:18:51 CDT
