Re: Oracle 10g RMAN and Standard Edition

On Oct 3, 5:12 pm, Brian Peasland <d..._at_nospam.peasland.net> wrote:
> joel garry wrote:
> > On Oct 2, 6:41 pm, Michael42 <melliot..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Guys,
>
> >> Could you please give me a quick sanity check...
>
> >> In Oracle 10g RMAN incremental backups (incremental level 1 etc.) do
> >> NOT require the Enterprise Edition, i.e. they will work on the
> >> Standard Edition too right?
>
> >> In my tests the answer seems to be yes (no errors etc.).
>
> >> Thanks very much,
>
> >> Michael
>
> > Metalink Note:271886.1 says no. The following cut from the feature
> > matrix there will probably not format correctly:
>
> > SE1 SE
> > EE PE
> > Backup and recovery N N Y Y Block-level media recovery
> > Parallel backup and
> > recovery Change-aware
> > incremental backups
> > Duplexed backup sets
> > Point-in-time tablespace
> > recovery Trial recovery
>
> > So Dan is right, it's a licensing thing. That's the difference
> > between sanity checks and reality checks :-)
>
> > jg
> > --
> > @home.com is bogus.
> >>From advertising section of signonsandiego.com web page:
> > Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to MySQL server on
> > '172.17.0.23' (111) in /home2/web/paperads/index.php on line 2
>
> > Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-
> > Link resource in /home2/web/paperads/index.php on line 3
>
> > Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link
> > resource in /home2/web/paperads/index.php on line 5
>
> > Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL
> > result resource in /home2/web/paperads/index.php on line 7
>
> It looks like we have conflicting information....according to the Oracle

Cool! :-)

> 10g Licensing Guide, this feature is available in 10g SE:
>
> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/license.102/b14199/editi...
>
> Feature/Option SE1 SE EE Notes
>
> Incremental backup and recovery Y Y Y SE1/SE: no optimized
> incremental backup
>
>

That really would make more sense. Too bad licensing doesn't have to make sense! :-)

Both metalink and the doc set could use revision control and sometimes more specificity.

jg

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