On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Martin Bach <development@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi group, > > my experience with 11g is a mixed bag. > > Installed 11.1.0.6 at a customer site as a demo on T1000/Solaris 10 and ran > into problem when I showed them how to apply a patchset (11.1.0.7): the SE > installation became EE with all features on. Wonder if the next release then > phones home? > Oracle has a history of doing that - assuming you are checking via the banner - You also can't do a custom SE install on at least some versions, it then gets reported as EE via v$version. DBA_REGISTRY seems to be reliable though for installed features at least though I'd like it to list features and options (yes I know about v$option) so that people knew what they had installed. Still one windows patch supplied a debug dll for distributed transactions that then stopped TPMs working at all! > -- > Martin Bach > OCM 10g > http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info