Re: connect to Oracle over the web

From: Rauf Sarwar <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 15 Aug 2002 16:57:10 -0700
Message-ID: <92eeeff0.0208151557.1744c3d9@posting.google.com>

> All oracle products ( an overstatement, I'm sure, but pretty close to the
> truth) ) are backward compatible..We use 9i clients
> to access 8.0.x, 8.1.x,and 9.1.x RDBMS instances with no problems ( the
> other way ( old to new) can be a problem, however)
> ( Export/Import are exceptions to this, I believe - you use the export
> that matches the RDBMS version - although I admit
> this part has always confused me)

For the most part, you may even be able to use Oracle 7 client and middleware to connect to an 8i or 9i database and vice versa. *However*, and the emphasis is on *However*, it is always a good idea to use same client/middleware version as your database. As far as I have seen on the Metalink...whenever someone posts an issue relating to Oracle networking, usually one of the inquiry from Oracle support is to see if client/middleware is the same version as the database or not.

//Rauf Sarwar Received on Thu Aug 15 2002 - 18:57:10 CDT