Re: Upgrade to 8.1.7 or 9i

We've had some real problems with jobs and queuing with 9i on Solaris. The 9.0.1.2 patch was supposed to fix these things but there are still some difficulties. If you go with 9i do some testing first to see what you think. Particularly if you're going to be doing much with advanced replication.

Van

"Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message news:3c0fcd82$0$29048$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> 9i. It's robust, has lots of nice new features, can be migrated directly
to
> from 7.3.4 (despite what the Oracle documentation itself says), and in
many
> crucial areas is much more scalable than 8i (I'm thinking of dedicated
> agents for external procedures, multi-threaded heterogeneous service
agents,
> and so on).
>
> 8.1.7 is de-supported in 2 years' time. Might as well hitch a ride on the
> newest version of the product, other things being equal.
>
> Regards
> HJR
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>
> "Thomas" <thomas.hiller_at_warema.de> wrote in message
> news:6e366956.0112060715.62df1b88_at_posting.google.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > i have a more basic question. We currently run an very old Oracle
> > Server Version (7.3.4.1). Now we plan to migrate to a more up to date
> > version. Therefore my question is what Oracle Version to choose (8.1.7
> > or 9i). What are the advantages or disadvantages of the particular
> > versions. Let me know your experince about that.
> >
> > The main criteria is stability, the second is to improve the handling
> > of very big tables, the third the scalability - because it is
> > preditctable that the database is growing rapidly in the future
> >
> > What would you advice me ?
> >
> > Regards
> > Thomas
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 06 2001 - 16:24:04 CST