Partitioning is one of those options that does cost you extra $$$, $15K per cpu is memory is serving correctly, but if you do have very large tables that are always getting hit or complex partition like views then it can pay for itself in the short term. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead PAREXEL International -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dba1 mcc Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 2:35 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: ORACLE EE and XE extra cost options We have ORACLE 10.2 EE on Linux server. we may use "oracle Partition" function and I check ORACLE doc: http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/license.102/b14199/edi tions.htm#CJACGHEB It say EE and Extra cost. Does anyone know "ORACLE partition" include on E.E. or it need extra cost? Thanks. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l