Re: Question regarding Oracle8 functionality

Hi Chris,

You shouldn't have too many problems using ORACLE8 over ORACLE7 as far as standard SQL and RDBMS operations are concerned. ORACLE are quite aware that there are alot of customers who will need to 'migrate' onto ORACLE8, and they could not afford to make ORACLE 8 too much different than ORACLE 7.

This probably doesn't concern you, but the OCI (ORACLE Calls Interface) has changed drastically for ORACLE 8, so if your current application is using them, then there could be some work there for you.

Otherwise, I think you should be quite safe - ORACLE is still quite a 'relational' DBMS.

Cheers,

Adrian.

Chris Muir wrote in message ...
>Howdy.
>
>Following is a really easy question.
>
>Under Oracle8 are you forced to 'object-orient' all your entities, or is
>Oracle8 fully backwards compatible?
>
>My boss is worried if we use Oracle8 on a new project we are going to
>have to relearn everything. Thus there might be a justified risk.
>However if we can still do everything the old way (ie non-object-
>oriented) while learning the new way (ie object-oriented) we can avoid
>this risk.
>
>Really hope you can help.
>
>Would really appreciate if you could email me directly. Just remove the
>'.no.spam' from my email address below.
>
>Thanks.
>
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Received on Wed Dec 03 1997 - 00:00:00 CST