Re: Upgrade to 8.1.7 or 9i

I suppose thats not surprising given the re-architecture of the job queue processing thats gone on in 9i. But the online web cast from Openworld told me 9i was unbreakable ?

:-)

Connor

"Van Messner" <vmessner_at_bestweb.net> wrote in message news:u0vs8s7oo41la9_at_corp.supernews.com...
> We've had some real problems with jobs and queuing with 9i on Solaris.
The
> 9.0.1.2 patch was supposed to fix these things but there are still some
> difficulties. If you go with 9i do some testing first to see what you
> think. Particularly if you're going to be doing much with advanced
> replication.
>
> Van
>
>
> "Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message
> news:3c0fcd82$0$29048$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> > 9i. It's robust, has lots of nice new features, can be migrated
directly
> to
> > from 7.3.4 (despite what the Oracle documentation itself says), and in
> many
> > crucial areas is much more scalable than 8i (I'm thinking of dedicated
> > agents for external procedures, multi-threaded heterogeneous service
> agents,
> > and so on).
> >
> > 8.1.7 is de-supported in 2 years' time. Might as well hitch a ride on
the
> > newest version of the product, other things being equal.
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
> > --
> > Resources for Oracle: http://www.hjrdba.com
> > ===============================
> >
> >
> > "Thomas" <thomas.hiller_at_warema.de> wrote in message
> > news:6e366956.0112060715.62df1b88_at_posting.google.com...
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > i have a more basic question. We currently run an very old Oracle
> > > Server Version (7.3.4.1). Now we plan to migrate to a more up to date
> > > version. Therefore my question is what Oracle Version to choose (8.1.7
> > > or 9i). What are the advantages or disadvantages of the particular
> > > versions. Let me know your experince about that.
> > >
> > > The main criteria is stability, the second is to improve the handling
> > > of very big tables, the third the scalability - because it is
> > > preditctable that the database is growing rapidly in the future
> > >
> > > What would you advice me ?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Thomas
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 06 2001 - 17:11:58 CST