Re: Mismatching Oracle clients and servers

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:11:50 +0200
Message-ID: <u8mad19f0v2nrta81p396ln9345fbe7108@4ax.com>

On 13 Jul 2005 03:00:05 -0700, neocide_at_gmail.com wrote:

>Will the existing Solaris app linked against libclntsh.so.8.0 still
>communicate with the new 10i server or does the Oracle server not
>provide any support for previous client versions?

Oracle is downwards compatible, which means lower version clients can connect to and work with higher version databases. 8i and 10g should work, 8.0 probably not.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

Received on Wed Jul 13 2005 - 13:11:50 CDT