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Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 Affordable, Full-Featured Database for SMB Customers Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 is an affordable, full-featured database built for unprecedented ease of use, power, and performance. From single server environments for small business to highly distributed branch environments, Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 includes all the features necessary to build business applications: Optimized for deployment in small enterprises, line-of-business departments, and distributed branch environments Offers a new cloud-ready container database architecture, making it easier to migrate to the cloud including high availability and rapid application Includes rapid application development tools and supports a wide range of developer frameworks and data types including XML and JSON development tools supporting a wide range of Supports enterprise-class high availability with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) Provides complete upward compatibility, protecting your investment as your usage requirements grow Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 can be licensed on servers supporting a maximum of two sockets on all Oracle supported operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Unix. There is no limit to the number of cores on the servers running SE2, but Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 automatically restricts usage to a maximum of 16 CPU threads at any time. When used with Oracle Real Application Clusters, each Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 database uses a maximum of 8 CPU threads per instance at any time. Multiple SE2 databases can be run on a single server to fully utilize the server CPU capacity. Why Oracle Database Standard Edition 2? Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) streamlines the existing Standard Edition (SE) and Standard Edition One (SE1) offerings into a single offering going forward that continues to provide an affordable enterprise class database for SMB customers . When SE was first introduced single and dual core CPUs were the norm. Today, we have 18 core CPUs and 32 core CPUs are around the corner. Not to mention that per core performance has • Greater functionality developer frameworks. • Cost effective license model – licensed per Socket vs. Cores regardless of how many cores are added over time • Easy migration to the cloud • Provides an easy path for scale and growth to Enterprise Edition or Oracle Cloud.  Zero-cost license migration from e

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increased greatly. This offering takes into account the ongoing hardware trend of increasing cores per socket. This trend has essentially made 4 socket servers obsolete. Therefore, SE2 aligns us better with what customers are using. Cost and Scalability Advantage: Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 can be licensed on servers with a maximum of 2 sockets . However, the core counts per 2-socket server can increase over time without impacting customer license obligation. With Oracle SE2, customer license costs remain the same regardless of the number of cores in the socket. Each SE2 database is...

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only scale to 2 sockets with SE2? A small percent of the install base uses SE with 4 socket systems. The most common configuration is 2-socket. For the small percent of customers that do run SE on 4 sockets systems , the following options are available:  Continue to stay with SE for their existing license and Oracle will continue to support it as per support policies . Consider an upgrade to Oracle Enterprise Edition or Oracle Database Cloud Service. Switch to a new 2-socket server (likely offering more processing Is it possible to license SE2 on a single processor of a 2 socket server? ...

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Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 provides an affordable, full-featured database with a multitude of new features and is built for ease of use, power, and performance, providing an easy path for scale and growth to the cloud. Copyright © 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliate s. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Intel and Intel Xeon are tradem arks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered...

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