Re: 9.0 or 8.2 ?

Cristian Veronesi wrote:

> All the Oracle major releases that I have seen apported one or more big
> changes to the database infrastructure: Oracle 6 tablespaces, datafiles
> and declarative constraints, Oracle 7 "real" constraints, stored
> procedures and triggers, Oracle 8 OO features, Oracle 8i (even if
> strictly speaking it is not a major release) a Java virtual machine
> inside the database.
> I read a lot of papers about 9i but I'm wondering what's really new with
> it. A lot of things are "improved", others changed their name, but I'm
> not able to see something really new. It seems more a 8.2 than a 9.0. Or
> am I wrong?
>
> Have a nice working week.
>
> Best regards, Cristian
>
> --
> Cristian Veronesi ><((((º> http://www.crpa.it
>
> "L'empirismo è una serie di sbagli, e più sbagli più senti
> che stai crescendo, che vivi." (Luigi Meneghello)

There are a very large number of major changes. Try reading the white paper on technet.

But perhaps equally important is the fact that Oracle is apparently trying to bring all of its various version numberings into line.

Daniel A. Morgan Received on Mon Jul 23 2001 - 16:20:14 CDT