Re: Oracle Options

From: Tim Gorman <tim_at_evdbt.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:55:25 -0600
Message-ID: <BEB0C18D.277D6%tim@evdbt.com>

Bryan,

Leave them alone. It doesn't matter if they are installed, just whether or not you are using them. And, as you've seen and heard in responses, it is non-trivial and dangerous to try to remove them. Leave them alone and don't worry about it.

Oracle takes the full onus for this, having all these options inter-dependent on one another and installed by default besides. They are hoping that you will indeed buy after trying. The implication here is, if you use them, you buy.

Don't use what you don't want to license. License only what you are going to use, and the rest goes by the honor system. If Oracle doesn't believe you are playing fair and wants to audit you, then they will ask to do so, and there are some pretty mundane ways to detect if you indeed are (or are not) using these different options or whether they were just installed by default.

Don't sweat it.

-Tim

on 5/18/05 8:58 AM, mkb at mkb125_at_yahoo.com wrote:

> Yes, that should work for most of the installed
> options except partitioning since that does not have a
> corresponding user.
>
> One note, I have done this on HP-UX 11i, 9.2.0.1 with
> drop user MDSYS cascade..., and it did hang, not the
> database, just the drop. I was able to drop all the
> other users cleanly. There might be a sequence in
> dropping these. Just an FYI.
>
> --
> mohammed
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> --- Bryan Wells <bunjibry_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>> sorry. lack of information on my part. i inherited
>> these, as they were
>> turned on at the original install time.
>>  so its not just a matter of dropping the user
>> ("cascade") that was created
>> at the time of install?
>>  On 5/18/05, Thomas Day <tomday2_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Don't install them. There is no "turn them on/turn
>> them off" option.
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>> 
>> 
>> -- 
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>> bunjibry_at_gmail.com
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