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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: XE/SE/SE1/EE Options (again)
At least one Oracle version/edition, XE does the inforcement (played
around with it last couple days).
XE will use only one processor (no matter how many you've got on the
machine), and it will enforce the size of the database.
Igor
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Alex Gorbachev
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 1:51 PM
To: brian.x.wisniewski_at_jpmchase.com
Cc: Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: Re: XE/SE/SE1/EE Options (again)
Just speculating... I assume that SE should start on any node with any number of CPUs based on the fact that Oracle does not really enforce licensing in that way but rather leave it to the customer to adhere to the contract.
2006/4/10, brian.x.wisniewski_at_jpmchase.com < brian.x.wisniewski_at_jpmchase.com >:
Having never run SE this may be a non-issue but... Does SE limit you on how many processors are 'presented' to the database vs you doing the calculation? Will SE even start up if the O/S is presenting '8' dual-core cpu's, probably changing cpu_count would fix it but does SE have these types of limitations? ORA- Error msg to the alert log? No idea. I'm not sure how the dual-cores present themselves - no access to that either :-(
Just some additional thoughts about SE above and beyond the legal definitions.
<http://www.jpmorganchase.com/> Brian S. Wisniewski Sr. Oracle Database Administrator Central Technology Infrastructure & Operations brian.x.wisniewski_at_jpmchase.com Cell: 614.975.2905 "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com >Sent by: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
04/10/2006 01:32 AM
Please respond to niall.litchfield
To: Rich.Jesse_at_qg.com
cc: "Oracle-L Freelists" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
Subject: Re: XE/SE/SE1/EE Options (again)
Hi Jesse
On 4/7/06, Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_qg.com
<mailto:Rich.Jesse_at_qg.com> > wrote:
Hey all,
I'm looking at
get the differences between the Oracle editions (okay, I'm not really
looking at XE). There's a "Oracle Database 10g Product Family white
paper" PDF on that page that lists SE as not having "Comprehensive
online schema reorganization/redefinition", but for the life of me I
can't find what actual Oracle pieces that would include.
you can't do online maintenance operations in SE so no 'ALTER INDEX .... REBUILD ONLINE', 'ALTER TABLE ... MOVE ... ONLINE' etc. I imagine the redefinition package isn't available - but you can be sure I'll see a bit later today.
Also, since SE is limited "to four processors", does that mean I could
only legally run two 8-core SPARC T1s?
Thoughts?
It appears so, somewhat surprisingly to me. From the licensing definitions
"Processor: shall be defined as all processors where the Oracle
programs are installed and/or running. Programs licensed on a processor
basis may be accessed by your internal users (including agents and
contractors) and by your third party users. For the purpose of counting
the number of processors which require licensing for a Sun UltraSPARC T1
processor with 4, 6 or 8 cores at 1.0 gigahertz or 8 cores at 1.2
gigahertz for only those servers specified on the Sun Server Table which
can be accessed at http://oracle.com/contracts
<http://oracle.com/contracts> , "n" cores shall be determined by
multiplying the total number of cores by a factor of .25. For the
purposes of counting the number of processors which require licensing
for AMD and Intel multicore chips, "n" cores shall be determined by
multiplying the total number of cores by a factor of .50. For the
purposes of counting the number of processors which require licensing
for all hardware platforms not otherwise specified in this section, a
multicore chip with "n" cores shall be determined by multiplying "n"
cores by a factor of .75. All cores on all multicore chips for each
licensed program for each factor listed below are to be aggregated
before multiplying by the appropriate factor and all fractions of a
number are to be rounded up to the next whole number. Notwithstanding
the above, when licensing Oracle Standard Edition One or Standard
Edition programs on servers with a maximum of 1 processor with 1 or 2
cores, only 1 processor shall be counted."
So I reckon 16 SUN T1 cores equates exactly to 4 processors. whereas 16 AMD cores equates to 8 processors. I'm not going to comment on what I think of the licensing scheme itself here, since this is a family list an' all.
TIA, Rich -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info <http://www.orawin.info/>
-- Best regards, Alex GorbachevReceived on Mon Apr 10 2006 - 13:03:58 CDT-- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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