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Major consideration:-
Oracle will be stopping (actually I think they already have) support for
Oracle 7.3.4, so it would be wise to upgrade.
I think you should consider going straight to Oracle 8i 8.1.7 as that is the
terminal release for 8i and will hence have the most
bugfixes. 9i is out already. Oracle Support will still try and fix any
existing problems
with 7.3.4 but any new patches to fix a specific bug may not be made
anymore...
Possible problems :-
Make sure you dont have any existing corruptions in your database, a full export should highlight any major problems
Upgrade to the terminal release of 7.3.4 [7.3.4.5.0 for HP-UX 11, may be different for Solaris) before going to 8i.
Read the migration manual carefully and practice on a full size copy of your production database if possible.
Make sure your audit table is truncated Make sure your system tablespace has enough space (double it?) It needs more memory (milage will vary)
As to the features, there are loads, too many to really list, have a look at the book Hegyvari recommends.
<hegyvari_at_ardents.hu> wrote in message
news:MPG.15913d3bf4fa67bb989689_at_192.168.0.1...
> In article <93f65984.0106122238.2a88fcd3_at_posting.google.com>,
> jkyf0131_at_hotmail.com says...
> > Our company is going to upgrade Oracle7.3.4 to Oracle8.1.6 in
> > Solaris2.7, anyone have any idea what problems will show up. Does
> > anyone have any information about the comparison of those two version.
> > What does really improve in Oracle 8.1.6???
> > Please help. Thanks a lot
> >
> > JK
> > jkyf0131_at_hotmail.com
> >
>
> Jonathan Lewis's book, Practical Oracle 8i will tell you, I assure you it
> is worth every penny. Lots of enhancements and changes anyway.
>
> Hegyvari Krisztian
Received on Thu Jun 14 2001 - 16:26:39 CDT