1. Real Application Clusters Installation Guide
  2. Oracle Real Application Clusters Postinstallation Procedures
  3. Enabling and Disabling Oracle Database Options After Installation
  4. Chopt Tool

Chopt Tool

Use the chopt tool after installation to add or remove Oracle Database options.

Purpose

The chopt tool is a command-line utility that enables and disables database options.

Note:

If you install or clone an Oracle Database image, then all Oracle Database options are enabled by default.

Prerequisites

You must complete installation before you can use the chopt tool.

File Path

The tool is located in the ORACLE_HOME/bin directory

Syntax

chopt [enable | disable] db_option

Options

Command Option Description
partitioning

Oracle Partitioning
rat

Oracle Real Application Testing
olap

Oracle OLAP

Note:

  • Analytic workspaces, the OLAP DML programming language, financial reporting, and the OLAP Java API continue to be deprecated in Oracle Database 23ai.

  • Be aware that OLAP will not be supported beyond the term of the current release (Oracle Database 23ai) premier support. Oracle strongly recommends that you do not start new projects using OLAP and begin migrating applications using OLAP to alternatives now. If your application requires an in-database dimensional model, then consider using Oracle Analytic Views. Analytic views provide a dimensional semantic model, calculations, and query semantics using data in Oracle Database. When used with columnar tables, analytic views provide query performance similar to the OLAP Option. If your application requires support for advanced dimensional analytics, what-if analysis, or forecasting, then consider Oracle Essbase. Oracle Essbase is a multidimensional database management system with support for complex dimensional business analytics.

Note:

The Oracle Advanced Analytics (OAA) feature is enabled by default for Oracle Database. You cannot disable it using the chopt tool.

Examples

To use the chopt tool to modify your Oracle Database, you must shut down the database before you run the chopt tool, and then start up the database after you add or remove database options.

Example 4-1 Enabling Oracle Real Application Testing Using chopt

The following example shows how to use the chopt tool to enable the Oracle Real Application Testing option in an Oracle Database called Sales: 

cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
srvctl stop database -d Sales
chopt enable rat
srvctl start database -d Sales

Parent topic: Enabling and Disabling Oracle Database Options After Installation