Re: Standby database & licensing

From: Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 23:57:05 GMT
Message-ID: <ldUde.12403$J12.11013@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>

DA Morgan wrote:

> HansF wrote:
>

[...]
>
> And you are correct. The definition of what is standby is somewhat
> ambiguous the way it is thrown-around ... including by me as I look
> back at what I wrote. Thanks for correcting my 9 days to 10 which I
> presume is the correct number of active days before licensing is
> required.

I posted an official Oracle documentation link just one month ago to correct the same mis-interpretation posted by DA Morgan in response to a similar question.

Check the link below, (from my post), for the correct definition and distinction between a (1) "moving" a primary database to a fail-over node for up to 10 days per year (typically via a clustered storage system which is simply unmounted from one node and mounted to the other, such as Veritas VCS), and (2) a Data Guard standby database. The distinction is very clear and un-ambiguous. This document has been available for several years, at least.

>> The reason I asked is that the last time I check with Oracle one only
>> paid for a standby after it was active for 9, I belive consecutive, days.

>
>
> That's what they refer to as a "failover" environment, not a standby database.
 > [...]
 > -- check the section titled "Backups/Failover/Standby Environment".
>
> http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/databaselicensing.pdf
>

Incidentally a physical standby database using anything other than user-managed recovery is an Enterprise Edition feature.

However, as long as your CSI number is active at Metalink, you are probably doing OK.

-Mark Bole Received on Tue May 03 2005 - 18:57:05 CDT