Re: Gather IO stats

Charles Hooper wrote:
> Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> > I see, you are actually re-inventing the wheel...
> > The functionality you are building is available in 10g, and in several
> > other products.
> > Obviously using the commercial alternative is cheaper than you
> > reinventing the wheel.
> > Probably someone should tell you to stop reinventing the wheel, and
> > make sure you spend your employer's time no longer on exercises in
> > futility.
> >
> > Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
> Available in 10g? Some of the information can be viewed in 10g, with
> the additional cost Database Diagnostics Pack that can only be added to
> the Enterprise Edition of Oracle. The Active Session History
> capabilities in 10g would be nice to have also - yes the ASH
> information is recorded in the database even when the Database
> Diagnostics Pack is not enabled.

But does it violate the license to access that information without buying EE and Diag?
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/license.101/b13552/options.htm#sthref48 (in particular the section labelled "Some Diagnostics Pack features are accessed by way of database server APIs and command-line interfaces").

jg

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