| Oracle FAQ | Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid | |
 |
 | |||
| Oracle FAQ | Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid | |
|
| |||
Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: oracle 8i
A copy of this was sent to jklap_at_my-dejanews.com
(if that email address didn't require changing)
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:24:36 GMT, you wrote:
>
>>
>> 8i doesn't support inheritance, object schemes are somewhat limited (eg you
>> cannot have embedded collections of collections, you have to use
>> "references"), schema evolution is severely limited (eg you cannot change an
>> object type if there exists tables based on that object type).
>
>Is this the same for Oracle 8?
>I've posted this elsewhere, but I'll ask here too.
>What ARE the differences between Oracle 8 and Oracle 8i? Everything on
>www.oracle.com and technet primarly talk about 8i, but don't give a difference
>matrix.
>
goto http://technet.oracle.com. Sign up for a free account. after you have the account, goto "documentation". goto the 8.1.5 docs. read "Getting to Know Oracle8i". It has a large section of "new in 8i", pretty much all of the technical features of the database that are new in 8i, release 8.1 are described there.
relevant sections in this document are:
Release 8.1 new features (versus what was in 8.0). Release 8.0 new features (versus what was in 7.3).
>I've got both Oracle 8.0.x and 8i.1.5 (both yet uninstalled), along with a
>production system running 7.3.4. We are looking at upgrading the 7.3.4 to
>8something, but what 8something?
>
>Trying to figuring out the differences from marketing information really
>sucks.
>
>-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
>http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
Thomas Kyte
tkyte_at_us.oracle.com
Oracle Service Industries
Reston, VA USA
--
http://govt.us.oracle.com/ -- downloadable utilities
 |
 |