Comments on: Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition vs. Standard Edition – feature matrix

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Sun, 29 May 2011 17:51:34 +0000

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.

By: PC

PC — Sun, 29 May 2011 05:11:15 +0000

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

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.

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:24:28 +0000

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.

By: PC

PC — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:32:36 +0000

Is ASM EE any different to ASM SE? If yes, whatare the differences?

Thanks.

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:15:47 +0000

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”. :)

By: Tony Hayes

Tony Hayes — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:17:27 +0000

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

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:03:31 +0000

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.

By: vinoth

vinoth — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:51:48 +0000

pls tell me the procedure how to install oracle10g standard edition on ubuntu

By: alan

alan — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:56:05 +0000

Hi,
ok yes it is not free, I guess you could say it costs thousands.

thanks for the information

Alan

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:33:02 +0000

@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).