why upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.1.x???

From: Rocr <rolland.cright_at_pwgsc.gc.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:53:12 -0400
Message-ID: <8t9r2a$8r2@shark.ncr.pwgsc.gc.ca>

I am a consultant with the federal gov't. We have an older system that is served by an oracle 7.3.4. db. Development is ongoing and the main tool used is PowerBuilder. There was a move to upgrade to 8.1.6 but that has recently been poo-poo'd because they (bureaucrats) don't think it is necessary.

I have brought to their attention the fact that 7.3.4. will no longer be supported and the performance gains we were expecting with cost based optimization will no longer be realized by staying with a rules based optimizer.

Besides these two points, performance of the optimizer and support, are there any good arguments that I can bring forward in order to push the conversion ahead?

Help me Spock... Received on Thu Oct 26 2000 - 12:53:12 CDT