Re: ORA 8 or 7.3

You must look at what you are building. If you are looking to build a terabyte+ datawarehouse, you do not need sedona or any other object technology. Oracle 8 provides the necessary functionality to manage large objects and exploit SMP, MPP, and clusterd SMP technologies.

rrbatra <rrbatra_at_feist.com> wrote:

>Also, remember that Oracle is shelving plans for Sedona - the much
>publicise development environment for Oracle 8.0. One wonder what
>tools Oracle developers would use for developing with Oracle 8.0.
>
>Raman Batra, Oracle DBA
>
>David Kaiser wrote:
>>
>> I would not touch Oracle 8 with a 10 foot pole. Every Oracle release I
>> have installed has had show stopping bugs in it. Regardless of their long
>> beta test (and ever changing feature list), I have no intentions on using
>> Oracle 8 for at least a year.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> Jim Olsen <jolsen_at_mindspring.com> wrote in article
>> <33a7ed22.4188769_at_news.mindspring.com>...
>> > Oracle 8 has significant changes from 7.3. It has been beta testing
>> > for 3/4 year and is extremely stable. You should base your decision
>> > on the application/database you are building. If you building a VLDB
>> > or a datawarehouse, O8 is definately the way to go.
>> >
>> > satarnag_at_aol.com (SatarNag) wrote:
>> >
>> > >Nabil Courdy <moab_at_emirates.net.ae> wrote in article
>> > ><01bc7933$9a2c0380$697eaac2_at_msdusr>...
>> > >> We are starting a brand new project in Oracle.
>> > >> This will be our firsr Oracle project. Should we
>> > >> go with version 8 or 7.3?
>> > >>
>> > >> Nabil Courdy
>> > >> moab_at_emirates.net.ae
>> > >
>> > >Rule of thumb, Never go with anything ".0", Stick with 7.3. There is
 only
>> > >minor Differences with the version 8.0 and 7.3 database.
>> > >Satar
>> >
>> >
Received on Thu Jun 19 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT