Re: What is your experience with 8.1.6?

We upgraded to 8.1.6.2 early last month. (Waited for patch 2 because 8.1.6 did not fix all the problems we experienced with 8.1.5). It has been going smoothly on several production boxes with LDB to VLDB's.

Terry Ball

"Lewis, Ed" wrote:

> We've been using it for several months
> with no problems on solaris 2.7.
>
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> Listers,
>
> We are considering upgrading our 7.3.4 and 8.0.4 databases
> to either 8.1.5, 8.1.6, or 8.1.7.
>
> I asked previously on the list about experiences with 8.1.7
> and got three responses. That leads me to believe that
> 8.1.7 is not being heavily used. Although we are leaning
> towards 8.1.7 for technical reasons, some team members
> are concerned that it may be too bleeding edge. I don't
> know if that is true or not.
>
> In any case, I thought I would ask specifically about 8.1.6.
> Are you using 8.1.6? If yes, what has your experience been?
> Are you using it for mission-critical, production databases?
> Are you using partitions?
> Are you using it on VLDBs?
>
> Thanks in advance for taking time to reply.
>
> Cherie
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