Oracle Database Load Capture
[oracle@orcl01 dbcapture]$ sqlplus /"as sysdba" SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Fri Dec 20 10:26:01 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options It looked like a nice addition because, as others have pointed out on their blogs, it could prove very useful for capturing an application workload on 10g to test how it will work on 11g before upgrading. There's a genuine business need for that. Then, having updated our first couple of test instances at work, I was reminded of the great care we take with license management at my current site (thanks, Tam) and, on closer inspection of the documentation :- The Oracle Real Application Testing license is required on both capture and replay systems for Database Replay and is charged by the total number of CPUs on those systems. I ha...