Spatial or locator ?

I'm a bit confused !
How to see if I'm using the locator or the spatial component ?

I think it just depend of the functionality you are using.
For example for using georaster in 10g, you must buy an Oracle Spatial license.
see this paper below to check the difference between
Locator and spatial
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/spatial/pdf/10gr2_collateral/spatial_ds_10gr2_0513.pdf
regards
Pascal

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Hi Tamas.
You should find your awnser here.
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Regards,

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[email protected]
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Edited by: 921274 on Mar 15, 2012 5:52 PM

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While you have Enterprise Edition for the Partioning option I can see why you want to uninstall any of the additional Spatial options to ensure you don't deploy additional cost options to a production environment even though your production code does not use any of these options.
I had a look at the Universal Installer and it is not clear to me either whether ticking the appropriate box will leave you with only Locator or remove Locator+Spatial entirely!
So, I can't help you, other than to experiment with the installer on my database.
I suggest:
1. Logging a call to Oracle support asking for the approved, official method.
2. While waiting for 1, try it on a PC which doesn't have Oracle on it to see what you get. One would think that if one has only Locator then a "Describe mdsys.sdo_geom" should tell you if you have Locator vs Spatial as Locator shouldn't have SDO_UNION and other geoprocessing functions.
Of course, in your $ORACLE_HOME there is the md/admin folder with the installation (and de-installation) scripts. But unless you had clear instructions from Oracle support on which ones to run to achieve your task one would not recommend hacking up a solution using these scripts directly.
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regards
S

Oracle Database 10g or Oracle 10g Express Edition

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I have worked on Oracle 9i but now I would like to work on Oracle 10g but confuse because there are more option for download.Which one should I go for?
Oracle Database 10g or Oracle 10g Express Edition ?
Or Any other option.
Any Suggestion are welcome.
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It all depends on what exactly you are planning to use oracle for. Depending on the version, there may be found or not some features, you can see it this way:
EE > SE > XE
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EXP     - export/import support
HS      - heterogeneous services
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By the way - feel free to join us over in the XE forum, where XE specific questions are discussed. Registration link on the XE 'database home page' if you have the database installed and running properly.

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