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Why Not Standard Edition?
Oracle comes in several flavors, ranging from free to swoon. Here’s a concise overview of each database Edition at http://www.oracle.com/database/product_editions.html. Having been in the Oracle food...
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The Fundamentals of Saving Money on Oracle
There are fundamentally three concepts to consider when attempting to save money on Oracle: total cores, software editions and contractual flexibility. Let’s take a quick look at each. First, most...
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Architecture and Design
It’s difficult (i.e. nearly impossible) to save money on Oracle without changing how you’ve deployed its products. License-friendly scenarios for consolidation, virtualization, high availability,...
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Enterprise Edition versus Standard Edition
There is no doubt that Enterprise Edition Database offers superior functionality that many applications and administrators shan’t live without. I wrote about this nearly two years ago when UNIX...
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Oracle Capacity on Demand (aka Infrastructure as a Service), Part 2
Part 1 was merely a primer on the potential financial pitfalls of Oracle’s CoD offering. Today’s post outlines the accompanying technical issues. To begin, it is important to revisit that Exadata is an...
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