Should we migrate to 8.1.5, 8.1.6, or 8.1.7?

We have many 7.3.4, 8.0.4, and 8.1.5 databases. Two of them of very large datawarehouse and datamart applications. We are using Sun-Solaris 2.6.

We are preparing to migrate the 7.3.4 databases. We've test-migrated to 8.1.5 which went pretty well. Now the question has come up whether we should migrate to 8.1.6 instead. Or even 8.1.7.

We don't use parallel server, OPS, or materialized views. Mostly we just use partitioning, the star schema design (and cost-based optimization) as well as Java.

I've been looking at the new features in 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 (does anyone know where I can get a decent copy of the 8.1.6 (8i release 2) white paper)?

Where can I find a document that shows which bugs are fixed in 8.1.6 and which are fixed in 8.1.7?

How stable/viable is 8.1.7? How many people are using it on their critical production databases? What have experiences been? Anything to watch out for?

What about 8.1.6? Any particularly bad experiences with it?

We've been using 8.1.5 for a while but not with our data warehouse. Any major problems with VLDB or partitions or anything like that in 8.1.5?

Thanks for sharing your experience, Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 15:02:44 CDT