Re: Outrage that OCP exams are now unproctored - Comments?

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:27:32 GMT, "Joe" <email_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>Honestly, many sites just upgrade their Oracle version for supporting
>purpose. They never pay attention to how to take advantage of some new
>feature they are paying for.

Most third party sw (originally developed for sqlserver) doesn't use any feature beyond 7.3.4 and still relies on the rule based optimizer. So, apart from administrative features as LMT, chances are you are never going to use any 8i specific feature. If you continue to upgrade though (to 10i) you will get a very unpleasant surprise as RBO is now gone.
We are administering many sites that have upgraded to 8.1.7, just because we forced them to, because our policies don't allow unsupported software. But 0 new features are being used, unless (LMT again) implemented by my firm. This is not because we don't want to use new features, but because the third party vendor never certified their sw for 8.1.7

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Fri Dec 27 2002 - 09:19:04 CST