Re: Question on Upgrading from 7.3.4

In message <1083378741.578458_at_yasure>, Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> writes
>Bernard Peek wrote:
>
>> I've just been handed a question, as part of a job interview next
>>week. They want me to give a presentation on the theme of: "Oracle
>>Database 7.3.4...should we upgrade or should we replace?"
>> I've found a thread in the FAQ from the Oracle-L list in 2002. I'll
>>spend some time following that up. That should cover "should we
>>upgrade" as of that date.
>> Could anyone throw me a line and give me some points that will help
>>me give them the totally bogus impression that I'm an Oracle guru, or
>>at least that I'm capable of researching the question? I have to
>>confess that the last time I used Oracle it was V5 and I've been
>>working with SQL Server since then.
>> If you reply by e-mail I'll summarise the results when I get back to
>>the newsgroup early next week. On second thoughts, no. I'll summarise
>>the results when I'm sure that it won't help anyone else who also has
>>to give that presentation. Sorry chaps.
>> (Anyone else in the UK who wants an IT Manager/DBA at short notice
>>please feel free to contact me. I have a mortgage and poor starving
>>Bank Manager to support.)
>
>I'm going to have to agree with Sybrand on this. I think you are doing
>yourself a huge dissevice if you get this job.

That's possible, but they shortlisted me knowing that I'm not an Oracle guru. It wouldn't surprise me to find that they aren't really using 7.3.4 but just using it as a convenient example. My contact with the company is through a consultant rather than the company itself, and I have very little information on the technology they are using. But that's a different issue.

Given the current state of the British jobs market, beggars can't be choosers.

Anyway, thanks for the replies, discouraging though they are.

-- 
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author. Will work for money.