Re: Oracle 8i

From: Jonathan Gennick <gennick_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: 27 Sep 1998 05:39:07 GMT
Message-ID: <3613ce03.20624448@netnews.worldnet.att.net>

On Sat, 26 Sep 1998 03:29:25 -0400, Yan Ge <yage_at_waksman.rutgers.edu> wrote:

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>1. Is ORACLE 8i =ORACEL8 + enhanced web-related features? Or in other
>words, can O-8i do whatever O-8 can do?

Oracle 8i is a version upgrade. It used to be Oracle 8.1 until recently. The name change was for marketing purposes. There are a lot of new features, some of them quite exciting, but it's an evolution of the Oracle 8, not a different product.

> If so, Should I wait to learn
>O-8i instead of learning O-8 now since it seems that at least they
>differ at the level of file system --will the knowledge of O-8 still
>useful for O-8i, if not 100%, approximately how much?

Learn Oracle 8. You will lose nothing when Oracle8i comes out.

>Thanks in advance for your response to these maybe stupid questions.

Not at all. They weren't stupid. These frequent name changes can confuse things.

Jonathan Received on Sun Sep 27 1998 - 00:39:07 CDT