Re: How long will 8.1.7 survive?

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:10:36 +0100
Message-ID: <3d83192f$0$8509$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com>

"tingl" <tlam15_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:f487699f.0209131320.1e51aa00_at_posting.google.com...
> nsouto_at_optushome.com.au (Nuno Souto) wrote in message
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> > tlam15_at_hotmail.com (tingl) wrote in message
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> In many respects, I find 7.3.4 easier to manage than 8i.

Do you ever find you need to reorganise your db because of fragmentation? Need to copy a table containg streams of binary data from one place to another? Get Oracle to email you when a database job finishes or fails? All of these jobs are much easier in 8i.

> At least I
> don't have to worry about the features I don't need, even the patches
> are much smaller.

Not only that you'll never need to apply another patch again, because there won't be any. Yippee!

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Sat Sep 14 2002 - 06:10:36 CDT