Re: any problems in upgrade from oracle V7.3.4 to 8.1.6 ?

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_netaxis.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:36:24 -0400
Message-ID: <rQwK3.637$eM4.53414@typ11.nn.bcandid.com>

I don't know about 8.1.6, but in moving from 7.3.4 to 8.1.5 we found a few stored procedures that compiled in 7.3.4 would no longer compile in 8.1.5. Nothing major. Also v8 needs a lot more space in the system tablespace than v7. I'd add another 200M before the move.

Van

Jessica Alford <alfordjNOalSPAM_at_sx.com.invalid> wrote in message news:1c31fd54.c1b8bf1b_at_usw-ex0102-009.remarq.com...
> I've heard a rumour that there are known problems in upgrading between
> Oracle V7.3.4 to 8.1.6. Specifically, there may be an embedded SQL
> syntax change between 7.3 and 8.1. Pending my receiving release notes,
> has any one done an upgrade similar to this? What sort of problems did
> you encounter?
>
> This information may benefit other oracle users:
> In a previous Oracle upgrade we discovered that we had to massage our
> makefiles to call the new & modified Oracle libraries.
>
>
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