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

From: Wanderley M Ceschim <wces123_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 02:50:05 GMT
Message-ID: <xj8P9.57912$6H6.2011132@twister.austin.rr.com>


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

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> 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
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> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
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> To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address

It's not just about features directly used by your application. Oracle8i (and newer) have several features your DBA will love and your users even more (such as online table reorg and automatic rollback management in Oracle 9i).

I understand application vendors want to build on a stable platform, but when I worked for a software house we made a constant effort to keep up with newer versions, being at most two years "late" to the punch.

My 2 cents, anyway. Guess a bit off-topic though. Received on Fri Dec 27 2002 - 20:50:05 CST

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