"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message news:<3d83192f$0$8509$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com>...
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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
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No, I don't need to do any of thoes. That's exactly my point.
I haven't had to reorg my db for a long time and they perform
perfectly. Even I need to, it is not so hard to do it on 7.3.4.
Received on Mon Sep 16 2002 - 11:08:06 CDT
