Re: Oracle 8 Compatabilty

Two things i can think of...

1. When doing an export of 8, and importing to 7, you will run into problems. There are work-a-rounds, but troublesome never the less. 2. If you are running personalized applications in Oracle 7 that reflect or use the ROWID, they will not work in Oracle 8 because of the new ROWID format. You will need to change those applications accordingly.

My two cents...
Satar Naghshineh

In article <708cb5$fvt$1_at_news.toolcity.net>,   "Jamie" <jndhorn_at_toolcity.net> wrote:
> what about backwards compatibility?
>
> Jerry Gitomer wrote in message <702kn5$dut$1_at_client2.news.psi.net>...
> >Hi Jamie,
> >
> >Upwards compatibility is very good. We just converted a couple of sizeable
> >applications from 7.3.3 to 8.0.4 with almost no changes (I am not certain,
> >but I seem to recall that we didn't have to make any changes at all to our
> >code).
> >
> >You should be able to find better data somewhere in Oracles web pages
> >(www.oracle.com)
> >
> >regards
> >
> >Jerry
> >
> >Jamie wrote in message <7004s4$b8f$1_at_news.toolcity.net>...
> >>Very early in the research phase...
> >>Looking into purchasing a copy of Oracle 8. A client is currently using
> >>Oracle 7.x (not exatcly sure), and planning to upgrade to 8.
> >>
> >>Is Version 8 at all backwards compatible with version 7?
> >>
> >>Is there any information on a web page about this?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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