Re: Oracle Licensing Validation
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:18:23 +0100
Message-ID: <CAK6ito2PHwVC0EeUFce3C1qEx-zJkA2E_eqkTPv+pDEexmiejg_at_mail.gmail.com>
Hi, Doc 1317265.1 is back. Seems they remove it sometimes to check it...
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 4:42 AM Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> The short answer is you can't. If you installed your database correctly,
> and you did indeed install standard edition 2, and not enterprise edition.
> That's about the only thing you could accidentally do wrong here.
>
> Note that you can't install EE, somehow only use SE features, and in turn
> only pay for an SE license. The edition is determined at installation time.
>
> Anything listed in dba_feature_usage_statistics would not really matter,
> since all the EE-only features are effectively disabled on SE. You can't
> use them even if you tried.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 1:18 AM Carlos Carlos <cc427908_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> We created an new oracle instance, standard edition 12.2.0.1.0 on Oracle
>> Linux 7.7 and we want to make sure we aren't using any features we aren't
>> supposed to use.
>>
>>
>>
>> My questions are:
>>
>> 1. How do we go about validating the license on a database?
>>
>> 2. I’ve seen some references to licensing validation with Doc ID
>> 1317265.1, however that document doesn’t seem to be accessible anymore, is
>> there another document, script out there?
>>
>> 3. I was querying DBA_FEATURE_USAGE_STATISTICS and noticed the feature
>> names don't necessarily match the names in the online licensing document
>> (e.g.
>> https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/12.2/dblic/Licensing-Information.html#GUID-0F9EB85D-4610-4EDF-89C2-4916A0E7AC87)
>>
>>
>> - for example DBA_FEATURE_USAGE_STATISTICS shows that 'Adaptive Plans'
>> have been used, but the document only references 'Adaptive Execution
>> Plans'. Are these the same? How can we reconcile differences in feature
>> names?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Carl
>>
>
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