Re: XE/SE/SE1/EE Options (again)

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.

Brian S. Wisniewski
Sr. Oracle Database Administrator
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"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
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04/10/2006 01:32 AM
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        To:     Rich.Jesse_at_qg.com
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        Subject:        Re: XE/SE/SE1/EE Options (again)

Hi Jesse

On 4/7/06, Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_qg.com> wrote: Hey all,

I'm looking at http://www.oracle.com/database/product_editions.html to 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 , "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

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