Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!news.linkpendium.com!newsfeed.stueberl.de!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!p01!fed1read03.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Anna C. Dent" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: client/server connectivity between Oracle versions References: <01d2rvsvotg97ac9s6hnkm6kufi26iqbt6@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <01d2rvsvotg97ac9s6hnkm6kufi26iqbt6@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 22 Message-ID: <65gsb.34775$L77.28707@fed1read03> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:32:55 -0800 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.7.204.31 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: fed1read03 1068600770 68.7.204.31 (Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:32:50 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:32:50 EST Organization: Cox Communications Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:247488 Sybrand Bakker wrote: > On 11 Nov 2003 15:54:08 GMT, Christoph Kukulies > wrote: > > >>Are there any restrictions or rules which server versions can work with what >>client versions of Oracle? >> >>Can a 8.0.5 client connect to a 9i server? >>Can a 9.2 client connect to a 8.0.5 server? > > > 1 Oracle downwards compatible, lower version clients can connect to > higher version servers > 2 Might work, but also might not. > > The other poster misinterprets the term 'downwards compatible' > 9.x to 7.3.4 doesn't work. 9.1 <--> 7.3 does work 9.2 <--> 7.3 does NOT work