Re: Upgrading from 8.0.x to 8.1.x considered harmful

I have set 8i and 8.0.5 up fine on HP-UX 11.00 and NT. The only problems I have had is when a dba under me has attempted to use the same $ORACLE_HOME for both. Am I an isolated incident? Who else has had success/failure with 8i and 8.0.x?

Cheers,
GC

dave mausner wrote:
>
> i have advised my consulting firm not to install 8.1.x internally, nor to
> advise our clients to deploy it, unless specific oracle8i features are
> required for project success. there are very few such features.
>
> the central problem is that 8.1 will not live compatibly with 8.0
> products. there have been numerous cases of net8 failure to make local or
> remote connections, incompatibilty with locally-installed third-party
> tools, incompatibility with oracle's own 8.0 products, and severe cost-
> based-optimizer bugs.
>
> there have been isolated cases of 8.1 installs working just fine. that is
> no comfort. most installs are more complex than that, involving other
> tools.
>
> the only solution i have come up with: install oracle8i by itself on a
> machine containing no other oracle products or third-party tools; access
> 8i only by remote control over the network. THIS seems to work and can be
> supported.
>
> i invite comments from usenet colleagues.
> --
> dave mausner
Received on Sat Feb 05 2000 - 17:16:04 CST