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As you may well know, Advanced Compression is an option you have to pay for when using it. But as a DBA you can’t always control the use of this option, e.g. the use of Datapump with Compression parameters. Lately, a few customers were involved in a discussion with Oracle […]
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0 Suppose the number of Oracle licenses you acquired in the past, is in line with the use. That is, you’re compliant with all the licensing rules Oracle come up with. The license form you use is the so called ‘Full use’ license, this is the most common license form. Everybody […]
0 0 For years the number of 0.7893 meant something to those who are working on regular basis with licenses in Europe. This number is the ‘Current local Pricing Exchange rate’. And Oracle is entitled to change this rate twice a year:
0 0 On 21 January 2015, Oracle announced Exadata X5, the sixth revision of Oracle’s database management system (DBMS) engineered system. The entire Exadata configuration no longer needs to be licensed when using OracleVM. Instead, a minimum of 40% of the cores in a server must be licensed. This information has been […]
0 0 Hereby a somewhat embarrasing story about a performance problem with an Oracle Warehouse Builder – database (11.2.0.3). Embarrasing, while it took too much time to figure out what was going on. The case: unexpectedly, within a week notice, the performance of an Oracle Warehoude Builder environment decreased drastically: logging in […]
0 0 As you may know, the use of Oracle Locator is free of charge, while Spatial is an option in Oracle Enterprise Edition which have to be paid for. Spatial has more functionality though. But when using Locator functionality and Oracle LMS (License Management Services) comes around running their scripts, there […]
0 0 Oracle is eager to offer companies a ULA, an Unlimited License Agreement, especially at the end of the financial year. If these companies are considering an ULA, this company obviously met the criteria : a large company with Oracle products in their roadmap, and anticipating a growing usage of Oracle […]
0 0 This post is intended to be a dummy guide, best practices, or whatever you call it… about setting up a network while working with virtual boxes on a desk- or laptop. I was setting up a virtual box environment with several Virtual Boxes on my laptop, and as I’m not […]
0 0 To build an Oracle 12C RAC database – on Virtual Boxes – there’s at least shared storage needed for ASM, and a DNS-server for the SCAN-addresses. Several methods can be used for this, but for the storage in my private project I chose Openfiler, an open source management storage tool, […]
0 0 Once in a while a company wants to know if her Oracle development- and test- environments needs to be licensed. And in a lot of cases this question simply can be answered as: yes, these environments must be licensed. The cases in which these licenses are not needed, are quite […]
0 0 A while ago I configured an encrypted column in a table for a customer in database 11g. To achieve this, a wallet had to be created outside the database. The main characteristic of this concept is that your data in the database is safe for unauthorized acces, so the wallet […]
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