Re: Becoming an Oracle DBA (part 3)

The theory is fine, Liz, and to that extent I agree with you. However, if you want to transport a tablespace, move a table without having to recreate all indexes, triggers and permissions, or investigate the redo logs with a view to total data recovery -guess what? You have to have 8i... and if you're going to have 8i, you'd best have the version that works (ie 8.1.6).

There is a wealth of new stuff in 8i that warrants the upgrade on its own. Just mho
Regards
HJR "Liz Reen" <lizr_at_geologist.com> wrote in message news:MPG.145e1a025f1cf38e989694_at_news.supernews.com...
> In article <39f049d4_at_news.iprimus.com.au>, howardjr_at_www.com says...
> > Without wishing to seem trite, my only real suggestion is to drop Oracle
 8
> > as quickly as possible, and install 8.1.6 or better, and concentrate on
 the
> > 8i material.
> >
> > I speak as one who thought the sun was 8.0.x but who has recently
 discovered
> > that it was merely a stepping stone to the much better things in 8i.
> Just remember that a whole pile of the real world is stuck on 7.3.4 for a
> variety of good reasons. I could wish I was on 8i, but until the
> software vendor puts out an 8i version, I'm stuck with 7.3.4.
>
> My advice is learn how things work. If you understand the theory behind
> the program it does not matter what the program is. Databases are
> databases be they Oracle, Sybase, or SQL Server. I have worked on 7
> different operating systems in my career. Once I understood the theory
> it was very easy to learn another one.
>
>
> Liz
Received on Tue Oct 24 2000 - 03:12:31 CDT