How many times did you find yourself looking whether a certain feature is part of Oracle Standard Edition or it requires an Enterprise license?
I used to find myself in that situation quite often. I know there is a feature matrix somewhere but every time I end up looking for it over and over again. Worse yet – often I can’t even recall that magic combination of keywords leading to the page I need.
As it always happens, I find something by a chance when I don’t need it. Today is no different but this time I’m posting the reference in the blog so that me and anyone else can use this magic link – Metalink Note 271886.1 Differences Between Different Editions of Oracle Database 10G.
It includes all version of Oracle 10g databases:
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Standard Edition One
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Standard Edition
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Enterprise Edition
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Personal Edition
The first part of the document lists options available for EE. They are actually included into Personal Edition as well with few exceptions. Note that these option must be licensed separately in addition to an Enterprise Edition license. As usual – your salesman will be happy to take your call. ;-)
More interesting is the second part of the document with the feature matrix. This note rocks!
PS: Funny one – the feature matrix in the note says that “Backup and recovery” is not available for Standard and Standard One Editions so you won’t be able to have a backup with SE. ;-) OK, OK – read the comments there. ;-)
Update 02-Nov-2006:
Here is another good reference – Oracle Database Licensing Information 10g Release 2. This document includes Express Edition as well.
In the first chapter, you find detailed description of five editions, feature matrix, special cases (such as RAC with SE), CRS licensing, “Processor” definition and ratings and much more. For example, did you know that you don’t need a separate license for a database dedicated to an RMAN repository?
Chapter 2 covers separately licensed database options as well as management packs. Noticed one funny fragment there in description of Oracle Change Management Pack – “The Change Management Pack includes the following features: … Update database object definitions (ALTER TABLE) …”. Have you ever run ALTER TABLE on your database? ;)
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given that I am on Std edition – I think it kind of works like Murphy’s law – any and every good feature we would need is either not licensed with Std Edition or not a part of the Std edition install.
Well, you should look at it this way – the fewer fancy features you use the less chances you have to get in trouble – hit a bug, misconfigure something, etc. Be optimistic!
I’m doing some research for a bank who doesn’t see why they need to spend 800 per user per proc core for EE when they could spend 300 for SE. Can they mix? That is, can they use EE in production and SE in the dissater recovery site. They will need to replicate or pass updates at the end of each day from production to dr. Manually is ok. Thoughts? Thanks,
A bit late for the follow up but a proper DR solution must have the same hardware and software so I wouldn’t even think about it.
I am switching from Oracle 10g EE to SE.
What measures i should take to ensure the integrity of my data?
Will i need to re-create all the tablespace, schemas/users
afresh while importing my EE database dump to SE database?
pratap,
In general you would need to make sure you don’t have any objects and features that are not supported in SE. Also, I would recommend to verify that you don’t carry along the internal schemas that are part of certain EE options. The world won’t brake if you do take them over to SE but it will be just a garbage in your new DB.
Obviously, test, test and test.
I am developing central database for a organization using Oracle 10g standard edition. I want to implement c2 audit in this. How it can be done?
And I need to use Oracle 10g Express Edition for staging database. I need to keep it in sync with central database(both the database are not connected). How can it be done?
Thanks.
Sharad, your requirements are pretty broad and I’m not sure it has a lot to do with this blog post. If you have already the architecture in mind and need to clarify support for certain features, let me know.
There are plenty of ways for for replicating the data. C2 Audit project seems to be quite demanding and I’m not sure Oracle XE is up to the job in this case — Oracle doesn’t release any patchsets for XE or security patches.
Thanks Alex.
What can be the possible ways to sync a database(express edition) with the database having standard edition?
I need to develop a DWH using SE, I would like to know the features I can use and the ones I can´t.
I mean, bitmap indexes, materialized views and so on.
Hi,
I have imported one of dump (having 80GB) from oracle 10g EE to SE using impdp. But in SE one of query is taking too much time. In there query there is VARCHAR2 column comparsion between two tables, in one table the column is PK and in another table its indexed column. Could you please any body suggest what might be the reason? Why its not taking much time in EE where as its taking too much execution time in SE? Is there any versison differces?
Thanks
Ramana
@Ramana:
I will not reply to your question directly because of this — http://www.BattleAgainstAnyGuess.com.
There might be lots of reasons for that and most likely it has nothing to do with differences between SE and EE.
Hi,
are there any features of RMAN that are specific to Enterprise Editions of 10g
thanks
Alan
@alan: Yes. For example, multiple channels for parallel backup.
Hi,
So that implies that SE can only use a single channel, thats interesting. I understood that RMAN was a free tool for use with all databases.
Do you have any documentation links that show these edition specific features?
regards
Alan
@alan: if you read the features matrix I referenced, some of features are referenced there in the High Availability section. RMAN is a tool included with your Oracle licenses – not free (it’s a subtle difference).
Hi,
ok yes it is not free, I guess you could say it costs thousands.
thanks for the information
Alan
pls tell me the procedure how to install oracle10g standard edition on ubuntu
vinoth, just choose standard edition during your installation in the GUI – nothing else differs. Regarding the Ubuntu – google it up – it’s your homework and you will find bunch of guides on our blog as well.
Hi Alex,
I have a small db I want to install on standard edition, I want to replicate to a standby db. If I manually copy archive logs across to the standby and apply them in a script.
Do I still need an enterprise license?
Thanks
Tony
Managed recovery requires EE. Manual recovery works just fine with SE. We use this solution for number of SE customers (and there are some third party products simplifying this automation as well).
You will, however, need to license your standby database since you will need a database instance mounted on the standby host.
Usual disclaimer apply — I’m not authorized to give you licensing advice so use on your own risk… i.e. “trust but verify”. :)
Is ASM EE any different to ASM SE? If yes, whatare the differences?
Thanks.
You should look into the referenced documentation and do your homework. I suggest you look into version specific manual (I assume you will be deploying 11gR2 now). There is no difference but don’t trust my word on it.
We installed Grid Infrastructure 11gR2 (11.2.0.2) on Solaris x86 64bit and after setting ORACLE_HOME to Grid Home and ORACLE_SID=+ASM1 when we get into sqlplus it shows the banner as:
$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Sun May 29 10:25:58 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 – 64bit Production
With the Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management options
SQL>
Is this normal? I mean we intended to install SE and not EE but we haven’t installed DB yet. And while installing GI, there is no option for SE. All that we have done till this point is installed GI (ASM is a part of it) and created a couple of Diskgroups. The banner worries me!
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Very interesting observation.
Since Oracle ASM was moved to Grid Infrastructure home, there is indeed no option to choose Standard Edition installing Grid Infrastructure. This means that there is no way to chose SE binaries for ASM instance.
In light of this, I believe that this is expected behavior and you do not violate any licenses as long as you database home is Standard Edition. I would recommend to open an SR with Oracle to log a bug. I don’t think there is distinction between editions when it comes to ASM and if you are an SE customer, you definitely shouldn’t see confusing EE banners.
Of course, don’t take this as legal advise :) but I think you should be safe with it.
Oracle Support now has a Master Note with links to the notes for various versions.
FAQ: Differences Between Enterprise, Standard and Personal Editions [ID 465455.1]