Re: Becoming an Oracle DBA (part 3)

I agree

however when we are paying tens of thousands in support for a third party product and that product is certified on 8.1.5 but not 8.1.6 then we have to live with the bugs in 8.1.5. Mind you so do their support staff.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message
news:39f536b2$1_at_news.iprimus.com.au...


> The theory is fine, Liz, and to that extent I agree with you.  However, if

> you want to transport a tablespace, move a table without having to

 recreate


> all indexes, triggers and permissions, or investigate the redo logs with a

> view to total data recovery -guess what?  You have to have 8i... and if

> you're going to have 8i, you'd best have the version that works (ie

 8.1.6).


>

> There is a wealth of new stuff in 8i that warrants the upgrade on its own.

> Just mho

> Regards

> HJR

>

>

> "Liz Reen" <lizr_at_geologist.com> wrote in message

> news:MPG.145e1a025f1cf38e989694_at_news.supernews.com...

> > In article <39f049d4_at_news.iprimus.com.au>, howardjr_at_www.com says...

> > > Without wishing to seem trite, my only real suggestion is to drop

 Oracle
 8


> > > as quickly as possible, and install 8.1.6 or better, and concentrate

 on
 the


> > > 8i material.

> > >

> > > I speak as one who thought the sun was 8.0.x but who has recently

 discovered


> > > that it was merely a stepping stone to the much better things in 8i.

> > Just remember that a whole pile of the real world is stuck on 7.3.4 for

 a


> > variety of good reasons.  I could wish I was on 8i, but until the

> > software vendor puts out an 8i version, I'm stuck with 7.3.4.

> >

> > My advice is learn how things work.  If you understand the theory behind

> > the program it does not matter what the program is.  Databases are

> > databases be they Oracle, Sybase, or SQL Server.  I have worked on 7

> > different operating systems in my career.  Once I understood the theory

> > it was very easy to learn another one.

> >

> >

> > Liz

>

>