Re: Are versions 8.1.5 and 8.1.6 buggy?

<vasarpota_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8lsj5p$sjm$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Are these releases of Oracle 8i buggy (or more than usual)? I had a
> class last week on Oracle 8i Peformance and Tuning and there were lots
> of little bugs that we all notices. Are they stable enough to start
> moving applications to or should we wait?
>
> Thanks for your help
>

Last question first: yes, they are stable enough to start moving your applications onto them. You don't say what version you are moving *from*, but there are heaps of new functions which are extremely useful, even over 8.0 -and over 7, it's a no-brainer (especially since 7 is beinf de-supported later this year). Locally managed tablespaces, moving tables between tablespaces, removing columns from tables etc etc etc.

I actually teach the 8i DBA courses, and I haven't noticed a whole heap of bugs which weren't there in 8.0.5.

There is one proviso, however: I still use server manager to do most of my DBA work on my own databases. I find the new, 'improved' sqlplus (which allegedly allows you now to perform privileged actions) to be overly pernickity. I would hesitate to call its behaviour bug-ridden -but not to say that it's a pain in the ass. But sqlplus is not the core rdbms, so any comments on such peripheral matters shouldn't detract from the essential stability of the main product.

Regards
HJR
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Received on Sat Jul 29 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT