Re: Oracle client compatibility

Oracle has always been "downward compatible" as far as SQLNet is concerned. We have operated successfully for over a year using SQLNet 2 (and PB 7.3 driver) to access an 8.0.6 database with absolutely no problems. You may miss out on some functions which might now be permitted with the 8.1.6 client, but if you weren't going to upgrade your apps to take advantage of them it makes no difference to you.

At 02:06 PM 10/13/00 -0800, you wrote:

>We are in the process of putting Oracle 8.1.6 on our Sun Solaris Unix box.
>So far we have it migrated to a DBA test instance and have opened up this
>instance to our developers so that they can test their applications.
>
>Our current Oracle release and soon be old release is Oracle 8.0.4. Most of
>the developers applications are supported by PowerBuilder 6.5.1. The
>developers found that they did not change anything but point to the 8.1.6
>instance and their applications seemed to run smoothly. They did not
>install the 8.1.6 client so they were getting to the instance using 8.0.4
>client software.
>
>My question is "Is this safe or should I mandate that they put the 8.1.6
>client on their user clients?" What problems may arise if I don't?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help!!!
>
>Thanks !!!!
>Tony Barker
>DBA - State of Indiana
>
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