Re: Oracle 8.0 -> Oracle 9i

If everything is working as you need it to, and if performance is fine, and if you have no need to enhance or redevelop.... why then: stick to 8.0.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is the phrase I'm looking for.

Of course, the lack of on-going support is a bit of a bummer, but if you rarely need support....

Honestly, I can' see why you'd think of upgrading unless you *needed* to. Particularly if the upgrade process breaks so many things on which you rely.

On the other hand: at some point, maybe years from now, an upgrade will be inevitable. So if an upgrade now breaks so much, it sounds like you need to get version independent quickly.

Regards
HJR "Guyon Moree" <gumuz_at_looze.net> wrote in message news:3ccfabb9$0$229$4d4ebb8e_at_read.news.nl.uu.net...
> ok, here's the deal,
>
>
> i have a question for you guys. at the moment i am still using Oracle 8.0
> server. It's great! I have this small set of Enterprise Manager Tools and
i
> can do everything i want with it. It's a great database and i just need
the
> Oracle database stuff like tables,triggers, procs and functions. _that's
> all_
>
> now i recently got a copy of Oracle 9i.... it has become a nightmare. all
my
> precious tools are gone. the installation trippled in diskspace and i see
> all kinds of stuff floating by and i don't have a clue what to do with it.
>
> now i know, that i just have to upgrade to 9i, and i know this confusion
is
> all about a lack of knowledge.... so who can point me to information about
> the differences between these versions. Also i like to know how i can
setup
> an Oracle 9i installation with just the basic stuff(as mentioned above) i
> need.
>
> i hope you guys can help me with this.
>
> regards,
>
> Guyon
>
>
Received on Thu May 02 2002 - 02:34:54 CDT