Re: Upgrade to 8.1.7 or 9i

Ah. So it's public now, is it?

Good. (I can never remember what I'm not supposed to know!).

Regards
HJR "Connor McDonald" <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:9urgp4$qfp$1_at_newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
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> Loosely June 2002 based on an Openworld presentation (Andy Mendelson) for
> 9i.2 - didn't say whether that was "release" or "announcement"
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> Cheers
> Connor
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> "Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message
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> > I wouldn't disagree with that, actually. The only thing is that moving
> from
> > 9.0.1 to 9.1 (or whatever "9i release 2", assuming there will be one, is
> > called), will be a minor migration, not a major upgrade.
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> > Regards
> > HJR
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> > "John Darrah" <jdarrah_at_veripost.net> wrote in message
> > news:937cc2e72915e32fa792d3cc8ae7b6aa.36240_at_mygate.mailgate.org...
> > > The only place I would disagree here is the desupport argument. I
would
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> > > willing to bet that release 9.0.1 will be desupported long before
8.1.7
> > > considering 8.1.7 is the terminal release of 8i and 9.0.1 is the first
> > release
> > > of 9i. Other than that, I agree. I've used both 8.1.7 and 9.0.1 and
9i
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> > > "Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message
> > > news:3c0fcd82$0$29048$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
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> > > > 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).
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> > > > 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.
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> > > > Regards
> > > > HJR
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> > > > "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
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