Re: Oracle 9i and Release 2

From: Richard Foote <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 00:25:00 +1000
Message-ID: <rHlh9.34175$g9.96166@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>

Hi Adrian,

Oracle 9i Rel 2 *is* just an upgrade from 9i Rel 1.

That's not to say there aren't significant new features between the two but you have to be very careful with terminology here. Unfortunately all this marketing talk of "New Releases" is somewhat confusing and is muddying the waters. 9.2 is not a significant release that requires migration but can be simply "upgraded" from 9.0, an upgrade I would strongly recommend.

Cheers

Richard
"Adrian Billington" <billiauk_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:dee17a9f.0209151341.520fae5d_at_posting.google.com...
> >
> > 9i is "just" an upgrade release for which standard upgrade procedures
can be
> > applied (don't let the "new release" marketing hype confuse you).
Checkout
> > the Migration guide for all the details if necessary.
> >
> Jurgen
>
> There are several new features in 9i Release Two that you might be
> interested in as well as many bug fixes. It is not "just" an upgrade
> by any means. For example, you get associative arrays (HUGE HUGE HUGE
> feature - did I mention they were HUGE) and list partitions get
> "maxvalue"-style functionality, there's bulk binding into tables of
> records, in fact, anything you need to speed up your programs has been
> either introduced or improved upon in 9.2. And I'm sure there's loads
> of DBA stuff in there as well...
>
> Oh, and if it helps at all, the DBAs in my bank will not install any
> 9i releases pre-9.2.
>
> Regards
>
> Adrian
Received on Mon Sep 16 2002 - 09:25:00 CDT