RE: Some 9i Questions - Help!

Something I always consider before upgrading to the latest and 'greatest' release of any software.

I once worked for an IT manager who had a different opinion on this topic. He used to say that the biggest problem with being a pioneer was that historically a lot of pioneers ended up with arrows in their backs.

However, that has nothing to do with the fact that I am currently migrating our production databases to 8.1.6 from 7.3.4.5.

Steve McCLure

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An edict just came down from our CIO that we should upgrade all our databases to 9i by the end of the year (he's decided it's important that we always be on the latest release of all software).

Aside from the fact that other than a small play database we haven't done any testing yet, aside from the fact that to do this I'd have to cancel all my holiday plans with friends and family to work every weekend in December
(probably plus Christmas and New Years) to meet this arbitrary deadline, I'm
still nervous about upgrading to such a relatively new release (I wasn't intending to consider it until late next year).

So, one question and one request.

1. When was 9i first released for Solaris (I haven't been able to find this information after poking around the Oracle website)?
2. Could anyone please post any 9i horror stories you've had? I know about the Managed Rollback Segment problem, but since that feature is optional it doesn't give me a lot of ammunition.

If this was a better job market I'd be contacting my headhunter right now.

Jay Miller

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