Re: Oracle 10g vs. 9.2

Niclas Rothman wrote:

> Hi experts!
> I´m in a situation where I´m supposed to give a recomendation for what
> version our customrer should upgrade to. Today where on a Oracle
> 8.1.7.4 and the big question is if we should go for 9.2+ our 10g???
> My main argument have been that the XML support i more amature in 10g
> vs. 9+, is this true? What is it that you cannot do in 9 that you can
> do in 10 etc.....
>
> The customer have the opinon that we should not go for such a new
> version as 10g, the usual arguments as "we don´t want the initial bugs
> in our environment as we can expect from a new product" , is this a
> valid argument. Is the 10g stable?
>
> Could you guide me of some key pro & cons?
>
> Thanks for your help!!
> Niclas

I would suggest 10g for many reasons.

1. As stable as 9i if not mroe so
2. A far richer set of valuable features such as regular expressions and Fine Grained Auditing (and many many more)
3. Enhancement of many standard features such as external tables, FORALL, and Fine Grained Access Control (and many many more)
4. Faster performance on identical hardware
5. Costs less as only one upgrade is required

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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