The link is for 11.1 documentation. 11.2 does reference DBMS_SQLTUNE package which is what I have used to create a manual SQL Profile.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/license.112/e10594.pdf

I’ll go back and have a look at the behavior again and see what I come up with.

Kerry

First, on my 11.2.0.2, control_management_pack_access was set to DIAG+TUN.
I use one time the tuning advisor and implement PROFILE.
For licencing compliance, we reset control_management_pack_access to NONE (before the end of 2011)…
So, normaly, SQL Profile can’t be used because it’s a part of TUN.

But, when i check dba_usage i get :
select * from dba_feature_usage_statistics where currently_used = ‘TRUE’ and name = ‘SQL Profile’

I obtain :
3432156699 SQL Profile 11.2.0.2.0 5 15 TRUE 06/12/2011 23:46:55 03/01/2012 23:33:45 2 (HUGECLOB) 03/01/2012 23:33:45 602864 604800 SQL profiles have been used.

So SQL Profile was used when management_pack is NONE…

Last things, the column Feature_info give :
Total so far: 2, Manual: 2, Auto: 0, Enabled: 2, Category count: 1

So maybe there is a difference of licencing if you use it Manualy or automaticaly ?

On the documentation for licencing :
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/license.111/b28287/options.htm#CIHDDBCG

there is no reference about SQL Profile….

So…

Great
Fred

I really liked your response :-) Very funny.

Today I was not in mood to work and then (as usual) I started reading technical matter and your name strike to me. Now after reading this post, I am in good mood.

Thanks!

Neeraj

Thank you for pointing to this interesting detail.

I was taught in grade school that there was only one word (license). I always figured licence was just a difference in spelling used by people speaking the Queens English (UK and Canada – maybe Australia and New Zealand). I never had any idea that you guys had two versions of the word to keep straight. After working on a project for a couple of months in London I had trouble with a couple of words that started wanting to have British spelling. I still struggle with that a little bit now and again and actually “license” is one of those words I struggle with. But I never had any idea you guys used both spellings.

Here’s a little excerpt from somewhere on the web citing differences in the language (so it must be true):

-ce, -se

Nouns ending in -ce with -se verb forms: American English and British English both retain the noun/verb distinction in advice / advise and device / devise, but American English has abandoned the distinction with licence / license and practice / practise (where the two words in each pair are homophones) that British spelling retains. American English uses practice and license for both meanings.

American English has kept the Anglo-French spelling for defense and offense, which are usually defence and offence in British English; similarly there are the American pretense and British pretence; but derivatives such as defensive, offensive, and pretension are always thus spelled in both systems.

Australian[52] and Canadian usage generally follows British.

I once heard someone say that England and America were two countries separated by a common language. How true.

Nice follow-up.
A further “corroborative” thought – “cardinality feedback” happens automatically, and works by creating SQL Baselines; so, whatever the intent of the licence document, your system may end up using SQL Baselines even when you (as a DBA) had never done anything with them.

Nit-picking apology:
Licence is a noun
License is a verb

I have to admit that I sometimes forget which is which, but then analogy is helpful:
device is a noun
devise is a verb