From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Tue Apr 19 08:09:35 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3JD9ZiC018564 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:09:35 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3JD9Z4Z018556 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:09:35 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 77D7F184D8D; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:06:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15600-01; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:06:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id DCE6B1841FA; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:06:44 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QaV547WRyPv/jiFgT0eVUFSJcnrI8igRnBH1VZaBigR4DiFy/i3P/tRmNqEEs3vnqbEpChbZVGVGrX/012N5EunyksMRol5NlpXd5Uevi0yOrnvys2yVck6xCexgx74NXcucU4ztOeTyvO8+hvQYaMq6d0DbWgoDljOO3jhcjuw= Message-ID: <687bf9c4050419050473650e4e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:04:52 +0100 From: stephen booth To: jame tong Subject: Re: Client 8i and database 9i Cc: chunyuh@gmail.com, jacintakean@yahoo.com, oracle-l@freelists.org In-Reply-To: <264ff934050419045163991a83@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050419042944.74502.qmail@web52906.mail.yahoo.com> <69c522bf050418235311c511f3@mail.gmail.com> <687bf9c40504190444f6675b4@mail.gmail.com> <264ff934050419045163991a83@mail.gmail.com> X-archive-position: 18597 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: stephenbooth.uk@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: stephenbooth.uk@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.63 On 4/19/05, jame tong wrote: > why do you install a oracle8i client here. The Oracle9i client can > also access the data in the Oracle8i database. >=20 >=20 Quite often application software will only work with a particular version of the client (often to the third digit). Therefore Whilst you can store the data in a 9i database you might have to use the 8i or even 7 version of the client as that is all the application will work with. Stephen --=20 It's better to ask a silly question than to make a silly assumption. -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l