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Oracle Licensing Mastery · Module 1 · Session 3 of 40 · 22:48

Editions and the options trap

What is actually in the box, what costs extra, and the features that enable themselves: the option price list, the permanent usage record in DBA_FEATURE_USAGE_STATISTICS, the EE versus SE2 decision, and the five step governance loop. One 8 license database, priced with its real option stack: $572,000 at list, $1.2M over five years.

What you will be able to do after this session

  • 1Read the box. Know what Enterprise Edition includes and what is licensed separately on top.
  • 2Price the options. Know the big option and pack list prices, and the rule that multiplies them.
  • 3See the trap. Understand how options enable themselves, and how usage gets recorded forever.
  • 4Decide the edition. Run the EE versus SE2 decision on real requirements, not habit.
  • 5Govern the estate. Run the five step loop that keeps option usage matching entitlements.

How the session works

A taught session with three knowledge checks: the AWR report question (the most common audit finding in the Oracle world), the option stack arithmetic, and the audit scenario where old usage meets an audit letter. It ends by pricing one database's real bill: base plus three options, $572,000 at list and $1.2M over five years.

Homework before the next session, about one hour

  • 1Run the query. Pull DBA_FEATURE_USAGE_STATISTICS from one production database.
  • 2Compare to paper. Options showing usage versus options on your ordering documents.
  • 3Check the checkbox. Find the OEM management pack access setting and note who decided.
  • 4Count the editions. How many EE databases run zero options?
  • 5Save the evidence. Date the findings and file them with session 2's pricing drill.
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