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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: database upgrade policy?
Highly depends.
I tend to stay back from the latest versions for some time. I also tend to upgrade for functionality, and upgrade when I have existing problems that are told to be fixed.
Sometimes if I start falling back versions and have no reason either way, I will upgrade my development database and slowly trickle them to production if things work well.
A lot of it depends on the environment, if it is a 24/7 very large system, then you only really want to upgrade when you have a good reason to. Or a good maintenance window.
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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:45 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Hi Listers
I'm on 8.1.6.0.0 and wondering about upgrading to 8.1.6.3.1(?) as I get the occasional ORA-600/ORA-7445.
Do you upgrade to the latest subversion as a matter of policy (and not test
very much) to prevent possible errors
or only upgrade if you have problems?
Do you upgrade to major versions (7 to 8.0 to 8.1) for increased functionality, cos Oracle are desupporting (the main reason we upgrade) or to improve the CV ;-) with the possible downside of instability.
Mark.
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