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What I was trying to point out is that your typical corporate DBA, who
reads Oracle's technical manuals and consults with Oracle on support
issues, is eventually going to encounter and consider using the
partioning feature, which is listed as "included" in the enterprise
edition of the database product.
While I don't argue that there's an extra cost involved IS DOCUMENTED, it is not the type of document that is generally reviewed by the implementor once said software is acquired.
Does anyone disagree?
Michael Fontana
Sr. DBA
NTT/Verio
-----Original Message-----
From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:DGoulet_at_vicr.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:06 PM
To: mfontana_at_verio.net; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Partitioning Question (3 of several)
Go read Oracle's Store web site. It's clearly listed as such. BTDT, still hurts!!!
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Fontana [mailto:mfontana_at_verio.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:51 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Partitioning Question (3 of several)
Here's a gotcha that is not technical, per se, but could cost your company a lot of money:
Oracle CHARGES EXTRA if partitioning is used, and it is not cheap. The list price is 10k per processor (not CPU, but PROCESSOR)! This is not covered in the manuals anywhere, and of course Oracle's manuals and tech support personnel will quite often and quite rightly recommend it as a valid method to address performance and data pruning issues.
This will only come to light the next time you have a licensing review. We just got hit with a $500k bill which we're trying to negotiate down...
Michael Fontana
Sr. DBA
NTT/Verio
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of david wendelken
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:58 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Partitioning Question (3 of several)
Are there any "gotcha's" about using partitioning that are not obvious to someone who's reading the manuals carefully? Things that will make one's life miserable until fixed?
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Received on Thu Sep 23 2004 - 17:13:00 CDT
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