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Licensing Oracle Spatial: Or not?
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Oracle, like many other vendors, increasingly audit their clients (see also www.oracle.com/corporate/lms). Usually scripting is used to identify and quantify the use of Oracle software. A relatively new script in the audit processis a script that measures the use of Database Options. This is understandable, since many DBAs start using these options for the sake of performance, uptime guarantee and troubleshooting without knowing that additional licenses are required when doing so. The script used by Oracle even looks beyond the question if an option is installed Read more