RE: Oracle 8.0.5

The main reason not to do this is that Oracle has desupported 8.0.5 as of June 30, 2000. I think it's best to keep as current as possible in order to take advantages of improvements and new features.

Bill Carle
AT&T
Database Administrator
816-995-3922
wcarle_at_att.com

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From: 	blair_at_pjm.com [mailto:blair_at_pjm.com] 
Sent:	Monday, September 11, 2000 10:04 AM
To:	Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:	Oracle 8.0.5

We have a mission-critical app running on RDBMS:7.3.2.3 AIX: 4.2.1

Our vendor has sent us a proposal to upgrade the RDBMS to 8.0.5. I know there
are releases beyond this (e.g. 8.0.5.x, 8.0.6.x, 8.1.x). But after searching
Metalink it is not clear to me that higher releases are any more bug-free than
8.0.5. While higher releases fix 8.0.5 bugs, they seem to introduce additional
bugs. Therefore instead of going to the highest release, my optimal strategy
(keep in this mind this app is mission-critical) should be to go to the
lowest
release since in those releases Oracle Tech Support will have had the most time/experience in fixing known problems.

Any comments on 8.0.5 vs. higher versions? Comments on my upgrade strategy?

tia,

..tom

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