Re: why upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.1.x???

Dear,
Sorry for my silly question.

I don;t think we should upgrade the RECENT version, if we will not use the new features.
If H/W and O/S, such as CPU/memory/OS version, are fulfilled the requirement for upgrade, total performance will not better. The only possible concern is 'DESUPPORT Product'.

Is there anything to consider ?

I wantto hear your Oracle guru's experince.

Regards,

"Rocr" <rolland.cright_at_pwgsc.gc.ca> wrote in message news:8t9r2a$8r2_at_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 Fri Oct 27 2000 - 01:06:14 CDT