Re: Oracle 8 Client compatible with Oracle 9 ?

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:57:20 GMT, Daniel Morgan
> <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote:
>
> >"Nuno Gonçalves" wrote:
> >
> >> Hello all !
> >> Does anyone knows if oracle 8 client is compatible with oracle 9 server ?
> >> I have linux red hat 6.2 with oracle client 8 and sqlplus seems not to
> >> connect
> >> to the oracle 9 server !
> >>
> >> It connects to a oracle 8 server !
> >>
> >> thanks in advance...
> >
> >Why?
> >
> >Why take a chance on something being forward compatible?
> >
> >Why not just install the Oracle 9 client which IS backward compatible?
> >
> >If you have 9i you have the client so it is not like it is going to cost you
> >money.
> >
> >Daniel Morgan
>
> Sorry to contradict you, but this response is wrong.
> Downwards compatible means that a *lower version client* can connect
> to a *higher version database*.
>
> So, actually the scenario above should work without problem.
>
> Regards
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
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I didn't mean to imply that it wouldn't work but rather to ask ... if you have the 9i client ... why not install it?

Daniel Morgan Received on Mon Jun 17 2002 - 14:29:48 CDT