I think an important point to make is that if you have a well-designed system that's working well on Standard Edition, and has no need for Enterprise Edition features, a switch to Enterprise Edition will buy exactly 0% performance improvement. The only reason to go to Enterprise Edition is if you need to take advantage of a specific feature that's not available in Standard Edition. -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:n-litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Standard edition should be just fine if you don't need partitioning > and function-based indexes.=20 Small correction (though as my mail from yesterday hasn't arrived yet who k= nows when we will see it). Function Based Indexes are available in std edition from 9.2 There are a nu= mber of other previously EE only options that have sneaked in in this relea= se.=20 Cheers Niall Litchfield -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: application/ms-tnef -- File: winmail.dat ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------