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Re: 9.0 or 8.2 ?

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr_at_www.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:18:14 +1000
Message-ID: <3b5beb6d@usenet.per.paradox.net.au>

I think self-regulating temp tablespaces and rollback tablespaces (now officially called undo tablespaces) are big changes.

Scrolling cursors will keep many developers happy.

RMAN is getting a big push. Log Miner has a GUI front-end that works nicely. Objects get a makeover that theoretically means more people will start to use them.

Yes, I guess all those things are incremental improvements, and no, I guess there isn't a huge paradigm shift... but I'd say it's a bigger shift from 8i to 9i than it was from 8.0 to 8i (unless you are a java developer).

Regards
HJR
"Cristian Veronesi" <c.veronesi_at_crpa.it> wrote in message
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All the Oracle major releases that I have seen apported one or more big changes to the database infrastructure: Oracle 6 tablespaces, datafiles and declarative constraints, Oracle 7 "real" constraints, stored procedures and triggers, Oracle 8 OO features, Oracle 8i (even if strictly speaking it is not a major release) a Java virtual machine inside the database.
I read a lot of papers about 9i but I'm wondering what's really new with it. A lot of things are "improved", others changed their name, but I'm not able to see something really new. It seems more a 8.2 than a 9.0. Or am I wrong?

Have a nice working week.

Best regards, Cristian

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