Licensing

GoldenGate DB2 z/OS upgrade checklist

Upgrading GoldenGate when the source is DB2 for z/OS is not quite the same exercise as upgrading a GoldenGate installation for Oracle. Most of what I described in my generic blogs about planning a GoldenGate(…)

DB2 SQL1598N licensing error when upgrading GoldenGate

While upgrading GoldenGate to 26ai for a DB2 z/OS source, I had to update the IBM Data Server Driver for ODBC and CLI (CLI Driver, in short) alongside it. Since I realized that DB2 driver(…)

SQL Server 2025 – Standard Developer edition

Introduction The arrival of SQL Server 2025 introduces the Standard Developer edition, allowing companies to deploy across all development, quality and testing environments using an edition equivalent to the Standard Edition without having to pay the associated licensing fees.

Patching your ODA may enable all cores!

Introduction If you use Enterprise Edition on your Oracle Database Appliance environment, and if you don’t have unlimited licences, you probably lowered the CPU cores available on each server to dispatch your licences accross your environment. This operation is(…)

Oracle Standard Edition on AWS ☁ socket arithmetic

By Franck Pachot . Note that I’ve written previously about Oracle Standard Edition 2 licensing before but a few rules change. This is written in May 2020. TL;DR: 4 vCPU count for 1 socket and 2 sockets count(…)

“Segment Maintenance Online Compress” feature usage

By Franck Pachot . On Twitter, Ludovico Caldara mentioned the #licensing #pitfall when using the Online Partition Move with Basic Compression. Those two features are available in Enterprise Edition without additional option, but when used together (moving online a(…)

18c: No Active Data Guard required (and detected) when only CDB$ROOT and PDB$SEED are opened in read-only

By Franck Pachot . When you clone a PDB on the primary CDB, you want that the same is automatically done on the standby ones. Unfortunately, for this operation, the CDB must be opened read-only. In 12.1 even the PDB(…)

18c, Cloud First and Cloud Only features: think differently

By Franck Pachot . Remember the times when the Oracle Software features were the same on all platforms? Where Oracle databases could be ported to any relevant platform? Where we were able to try any feature, freely, by downloading the(…)

Oracle Licensing (R)evolution with VMware

In 2015 I wrote a blog named “All you need to know about Oracle Database licensing with VMware”. This blog generated lots of comments and hopefully helped some DBAs and IT Managers understanding the potential issues that they(…)

Oracle Core factor and Oracle or non-Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . Oracle Database licensing can be based on two metrics: Processor or Named User Plus (NUP). NUP also necessitate to count the processors because there is a minimum number of NUP per processor. Then it is very(…)