Re: Oracle 10g OCI based application talking to an Oracle 9i database

Andy, thanks for the reply. Thats exactly what I was looking for.

Nick

"Andy Hassall" <andy_at_andyh.co.uk> wrote in message news:165ne2pj1qlivluk9lqlgmercsi4ihv461_at_4ax.com...
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:01:32 -0700, "Nicholas Palmer" <nick_at_kcicorp.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Got a question. I have an OCI C++ application that is written using the
>>Oracle 10g OCI includes, etc ... This of course is running on a 10g
>>client.
>>The client OS is actually a Windows x64 system since 10g is the only
>>native
>>OCI client right now for 64 bit Windows systems. So this all works fine.
>>Now, I am communicating with an Oracle 9i database server. Is there
>>anything
>>wrong or invalid about this configuration ? I didn't think that there was
>>but I was asked to confirm this, that is having an Oracle 10g client
>>communicating with an Oracle 9i database. Our application is making very
>>straight forward OCI calls, and we are not using any of the newer OCI
>>calls
>>that were introduced in 10g, just the ones that are available in 9i OCI.
>
> This is valid and supported; for instance the Upgrade Guide says:
>
> "Upgrade Clients to the Current Release
>
> You can upgrade any or all of your Oracle8i, Oracle9i, or Oracle Database
> 10g
> clients to the new Oracle Database 10g release. The Oracle Database 10g
> client
> can be used to access your Oracle8i, Oracle 9i, and Oracle 10g databases."
>
> Whether cross-version connections are as widely tested as same-to-same
> version
> connections is another matter, but it's offically _meant_ to be OK,
> particularly with a higher version client. Personally I've not had any
> problems
> running various 10g clients into a 9i database, using OCI and JDBC.
>
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