Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!peer1-sjc1.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!hub1.nntpserver.com!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: zijlr@yahoo.com (Ron van Zijl) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: Building Oracle 8i database with Oracle 9i Date: 3 Mar 2002 13:01:43 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 34 Message-ID: <89bdbf34.0203031301.60369abd@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.126.4.106 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1015189303 16965 127.0.0.1 (3 Mar 2002 21:01:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Mar 2002 21:01:43 GMT Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.misc:77572 X-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 13:59:39 MST (news.easynews.com) When you create a DB instance in 9i I think you create a 9i instance that might be backwards compatabile to 8i. You might receive conflicts at some point in time as there is functionality in 9i that is different from 8i. As you probably have read Oracle has added tons of changed to 9i. You can allways use a OTN download from 9i and test it. Oracle allows this as long as you do not go into production with the software. Once in production you have to pay (off course). My advice would be to just use 8i and play it safe. Ask if the customer is planning on going to 9i anyway in the future. Upgrading is allways easier than downgrading :) Ron Kai Bohli wrote in message news:... > Hi All > > I've got the task of building a simple Oracle database and access it with DOA and Delphi. My > customer have Oracle 8i, but I'm wondering if it's possible to use Oracle 9i for this. It' > s possible to use SQL Server 2000 and build SQL Server 7 compatible. Since I can get Oracle 9i for > the same price as 8i, I would prefer to buy 9i. > > Does anyone have any views on this ? > > Thanks in advance > > > > Best wishes > Kai Bohli > kaiboe@online.no > Norway