[Pansophy] Oracle Database

[David Sheppard]

Yes. That would be Oracle 18c.

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From: Valerie Bookwalter <bookwalt at jlab.org>
Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 2:29 PM
To: David Sheppard <sheppard at jlab.org>
Cc: pansophy at jlab.org <pansophy at jlab.org>
Subject: RE: Oracle Database


Sounds great!

Will this be the upgrade version of Oracle that we are currently getting ready to test?







From: David Sheppard <sheppard at jlab.org>
Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 2:25 PM
To: Valerie Bookwalter <bookwalt at jlab.org>
Cc: pansophy at jlab.org
Subject: Re: Oracle Database



Maybe you can get away with the standard edition of oracle. By doing so, the licensing structure changes. The licensing structure for oracle is complicated. For the enterprise edition, which you have, licenses database servers per core. For each license, the server is allowed two cores. For standard edition, each server licensed per socket. What that all means is that you can get a more powerful server, and standard edition costs less than enterprise edition. Enterprise edition has more features but if you don't need those features, why continue to use it? I can try to put up a test scenario for you to try. It would be scaled down. I could do the adapps schema in all four databases in a test environment. If you could test successfully in that standard edition environment, we could look at that transitioning the databases to that environment. Then we could look at changing your maintenance agreement. That gives us (namely CNI) also a chance of better understanding some new hardware that we could possibly utilize. We (MIS) are also looking to make that switch in hardware.



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Subject: RE: Oracle Database



David,



No we do not use Oracle’s query rewrite statement.

What options does that give us? Any word on new database server?



Valerie



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Subject: Re: Oracle Database



I specifically want to know if you use the query rewrite statement in your code.



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Subject: RE: Oracle Database



David,



We use VIEWS, Bonnie wrote some and so did a student for our security keys. Is this what you are referring to?



Valerie



From: David Sheppard <sheppard at jlab.org<mailto:sheppard at jlab.org>>
Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 10:59 AM
To: Valerie Bookwalter <bookwalt at jlab.org<mailto:bookwalt at jlab.org>>
Subject: Oracle Database



Good Morning Valerie,



Do you guys use the query rewrite function in oracle? I think you use materialized views, or you did in the past. If you don't use query rewrite, you may be able to save some funds using standard edition instead of enterprise edition. Let me know. Thanks.



David Sheppard
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