Thanks ! So Advanced Compression on non-Engineered Storage doesn't give me QUERY and ARCHIVE compresson yet it might be priced at the same $$ rate ? Hemant On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Niall Litchfield < niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > HCC isn't available on non-oracle storage. Advanced Compression gives you > COMPRESS FOR OLTP, Securefiles compression and (I think) deduplication as > well as additional RMAN compression. > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Hemant K Chitale <hemantkchitale@xxxxxxxxx > > wrote: > >> What Oracle Advanced Compression features are available on environments >> other than the likes of Exadata and Pillar Axiom ? >> If I install 11.2.0.3 on OEL 5.6 but no commodity hardware and a "regular >> SAN", can I use "COMPRESS FOR QUERY" and "COMPRESS FOR ARCHIVE" (with >> the >> Advanced Compression licence). Or am I limited to "COMPRESS [BASIC]" and >> "COMPRESS FOR OLTP" only ? >> >> -- >> >> Hemant K Chitale >> http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com >> http://hemantscribbles.blogspot.com >> http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital >> >> >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> >> > > > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.orawin.info > -- Hemant K Chitale http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com http://hemantscribbles.blogspot.com http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l