From: jane@williams.nildram.co.uk (Jane Williams)
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Subject: Re: Can we use PL/SQL 8.0 with ORACLE 7.3 ?
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On 5 Jun 2001 16:33:45 -0700, chachaji@vayumail.com (orahelp) wrote:

>we are planning to move to forms 6i, which require plsql 8.0.
>
>we are on oracle 7.3, with plsql 2.3. 
>
>Does that mean we need to move to oracle 8i if we want to use forms6i? 
>
>or can we use pl/sql 8.0 on oracle 7.3 ? 

Can't tell you the level of support off-hand, but we're happily
running Forms 6i against a 7.3.4 database. Also SQL8, of course.
(And Forms 4.5/SQL2.3 in parallel).

No problems so far, apart from the memory requirements of 6i.



