Re: Oracle 7 or 8; preference???

> >Our company currently runs (a number of ) Oracle 7 databases on SCO
> >UnixWare.
> >We are currently in the process of "upgrading" part of our
> >infrastructure. This
> >will include a new database server environment, probably based on
> >HP9000.
> >
> >Question is: is it a good idea to move to Oracle 8 or is 7 (still) more
> >stable?
> >Note that we don't need to migrate existing tables, we're starting from
> >scratch
> >here! Anybody out there having experiences (good or bad) with Oracle 8
> >on
> >HP-UX? We need a reliable, redundant environment. Our DBA still has some
> >
> >doubts regarding Oracle 8, 'cause its relatively new and he doesn't like
> >'0'
> >version numbers very much :-)
> >
> >Can anybody out there give me some advice?? I would prefer moving to '8'
> >
> >because of the OO options in there.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Wouter.
> >
>
> I would say : go for oracle 8.04 on HP-UX. At the moment I am investigating
> this for a client in the same situation. Big database conversions from 7 to
> 8 might be a little problematic.
>

I recently upgraded my large (4GB) 7.3.3 database to 8.0.3 and have had nothing but headaches. My advice would be to wait for 6 months for it to stablalize. The preformance increases arent' nearly sweet enough to warrant the stability headaches.

-Todd

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