Re: upgrade oracle server 8.1.7 to 10

From: Matthias Hoys <anti_at_spam.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:47:31 +0100
Message-ID: <43c40f57$0$14122$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>

<judy.dutcher_at_navy.mil> wrote in message news:1136849644.945748.250320_at_g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I'm currently running Oracle server 8.1.7 on Windows 2000 server.
> Looking to upgrade to Windows XP Pro.
>
> My questions are: Can I go straight to Oracle server 10 or do I need to
> first upgrade to 9 and then upgrade to 10? Is 10 different enough from
> 8.1.7 that I need to go to oracle training? (I know that to take
> advantages of the new features that I should go, but can I upgrade and
> then go?)
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
>

Windows XP Pro ? That's a workstation version of Windows. Why not Windows Server 2003 ?
If I were you, I would definitely follow a "new features" course, since Oracle 10g is in a lot of aspects very different than 8i (ASM, Flashback logs, UNDO tablespace, Grid Control, Automatic Memory Manager, Data Pump, ...). Please DO NOT upgrade "quick and dirty", only to find out some weeks later : "oh no we better did it that way" ....

Matthias Received on Tue Jan 10 2006 - 13:47:31 CST