Re: Oracle V7.3 vs. V8.0

Oracle8 gives you many advantages including:

* VLDB support: Table and Index partitions that increase performance.
* Abstract Datatypes: User defined datatypes.
* Security Enhancements

Dave Moore

Scott Cairns wrote:

> We are planning a 'green-field' Oracle installation (i.e., we are in the
> planning and acquisition stages only). If we don't have any legacy
> databases to port, should we jump in with v8.0 or v7.3?
>
> What does v8.0 give you over v7.x?
>
> This would be a data warehousing application with no multimedia
> requirements and no replication requirements (that we know of as of this
> writing). Hardware/OS would be most likely Sun Solaris.
>
> My concerns (coming from a Sybase 11 background) is that you probably don't
> want to jump in with the new model and go with the tried and true.
>
> TIA
Received on Thu Feb 12 1998 - 00:00:00 CET