As of when? It's still listed as a "costly" option on the "Oracle Store" web page. The perpetual license is $10,000.00 per CPU for the U.S. market.
Oracle 9i comes with lots of "options" many of which cost extra. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 8:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L That was not a good buy. Partitioning comes with Oracle 9, partitioning option is no longer sold separately. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 8:44 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: partitioning questions > > > > Hello, > > We are planning to move to Oracle 9.2 on as-yet-undecided platform > (probably red hat linux on ibm hardware). > > We finally pursuaded management to purchase the partitioning license, > and I have some questions on partitioning: > > Scenario: > Range-Partition tableA on a service_date field by year; > Range-Partition tableB on a posted_date field by year; These tables > are frequently joined using a separate field called charge_id, a > surrogate key. > > Queries against these tables usually include some sort of date filter, > join on the charge_id field, and are done in parallel. > > 1) Would this configuration promote the use of partition-wise > joins between tableA and tableB by the optimizer? > 2) Would it be better to partition the tables (either range or hash) > by the join field, charge_id? > 3) If we range-partition by date, subpartition by hash (charge_id), > would queries that do not reference the date field, but do join > the tables by charge_id still benefit? > 4) Is it more expensive, less expensive, or about equal to do a > full table scan on a partitioned table vs the same table > non-partitioned? > > As always, thanks to any responders. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the > name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send > the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Gogala, Mladen INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: MacGregor, Ian A. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).