We have complained so much that Oracle has heard the noise and has reacted!
In the Licensing Information Volume of the online documentation for Oracle Database 11g we now get the full information about the Management Packages. These packages are again fully installed by default. They are optional but extra cost options. In the 10g docu it was not possible to find out which functionalities use these packages implicitly and a lot of customers were under licensed without even knowing. For more information see my posts in the licensing section of the sidebar.
So far so good! Big improvement!
And here is the downside:
| Feature/Option | SE1 | SE | EE | Notes |
| Oracle Change Management Pack | N | N | Y | Extra cost option |
| Oracle Configuration Management Pack | N | N | Y | Extra cost option |
| Oracle Diagnostic Pack | N | N | Y | Extra cost option |
| Oracle Tuning Pack | N | N | Y | Extra cost option, also requires the Diagnostic Pack |
The packages are still only combinable with enterprise edition!
Recently I have made an interview with Guenther Stuerner, Vice President Oracle Germany, and asked him about Oracle’s policy with regard to the demand for the packages for all editions. He said that there are no plans to make them available for SE and SE1. The interview will be published in the next SOUG Newsletter.
the reason they can’t be included in SE* is that they use partitioning to clean up older information and that is not available with SE*.
Well, Oracle always states, that if any EE or extra cost option is used exclusively internally by Oracle Database, you don’t have to license it. So this is a marketing/business decision, not a technical one.
An example: LogMiner uses partitioning, but it’s available in SE.
Exactely Vit,
Oracle uses it internally for all versions for selftuning and diagnosis. So it is there!
Only that we must not use it. It is not a technical issue.
=;-)
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