Funny how the installer didn't let you know it was an extra cost option.
Graeme <graeme.fairley_at_wpcorp.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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!
Received on Wed Feb 13 2002 - 15:39:53 CST
