Re: Urgent!!! Upgrade Oracle and Hardware question ?

Frank wrote:

> We have
>
> Oracle 8.0.5 on Win NT 4.0
>
> We move to
>
> Oracle 8.1.6 on Win 2k advance server
>
> Questions for Gurus:
>
> Any danger that performance decrease??? I heared some folks some
> stored procs after these kind of upgrade getting very slow.
>
> What is the Hardware config you best recommended. Mostly about Hard
> Drive, RAID and Tape Backup and Network card
>
> For CPU we will use Dual Dell PowerEdge and We will have 2 GIG RAM but
> Hard Drive we dont know. DB size is aroung 40 GIG but will expand to
> 100 GIG in 3 years.
>
> Thanks for replies in advance.

There is a huge danger. You are moving from one horribly unsupported version of Oracle to another only completely unsupported version. And 8.1.6 was not exactly one of Oracle's proudest moments.

Go to 8.1.7.3+

I'll let others handle the balance of your question as I am running out the door to class.

Daniel Morgan Received on Wed Jun 19 2002 - 18:31:30 CDT