Re: Oracle8i client-Oracle10g server question

Hi,

It will be able to communicate, but the client will only be able to speak "8i"-language.

Which means that you won't benefit from many new features in 9i and 10g.

What's even worse, your developers and users will discover crashes like this :

Try selecting from a table a column of the datatype "timestamp" (which came with 9i) from an 8i client...the client doesn't know this datatype, so it needs to either crash, continue with a warning or (horror) continue delivering a wrong answer.

In short : Upgrade your clients to 9i *now*. And when you dare to upgrade your server to 10g, same with clients.

• Kenneth Koenraadt

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:29:33 -0600, "A. Fuentes" <alvarof2_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

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>Fellow Oracle Users:
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>I have VERY MANY clients with Oracle8i client installed,
>and communicating without a problem to an Oracle 9i Server.
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>Now, I am planning to migrate to Oracle10g server.
>Will the 8i client machines will be able to communicate
>to the 10g server? (as they are now doing with the 9i Server)
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>Any advice/thoughts grealty appreciated and welcome.
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>Thanks in advance,
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>A. Fuentes
>512-297-9937
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Received on Sun Feb 29 2004 - 04:51:46 CST