What's in Oracle 8 ?

From: Guy Dallaire <gdallair_at_criq.qc.ca>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 15:57:00 GMT
Message-ID: <3870c141.4914435@news.risq.qc.ca>

Hi,

We would like to migrate from oracle 7.3.4 to oracle 8. That does not seem to be a trivial task because of the nature of the products involved.

Right now we use the following products:

• Oracle 7.3.4
• Context option 2.3.4.1
• OAS 4.0.7.1
• SQL*Net 2.3.4
• Oracle developer server 6.x

All on solaris.

Last time I checked about oracle 8, there were two "kinds" of oracle 8:

• Oracle 8i
• Oracle 8.0.x

I know that oracle 8 now integrates a lot of things (Like context, web server, etc)

Does the 2 versions still exist ? What would be best for us ? Is the migration path from 7.3.4 difficult ? Should I do a full export and then reimport or am I better by upgrading my database ?

Thanks

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Guy Dallaire, Sysadmin/DBA
Centre de recherche industrielle du Quebec Ste-Foy, QC, Canada
http://www.criq.qc.ca
e-mail: gdallair_at_criq.qc.ca
ICQ: 18846092 Received on Mon Jan 03 2000 - 09:57:00 CST