Why do you upgrade your DB?

Saturday, July 8. 2006

Just had a little chat with the database administator I mentioned in previous post and we discussed about the reason of upgrading Oracle DB, generally from 7 to 8i or from 8 to 9i. I told him that I did not actually use any new features of the newer version and he said that's a very common thing. When we're asked to upgrade the version, do we fundamentally know why are we doing that? The ultimate reason which we concluded is if we stay with a old version, Oracle won't continue to support us.

Posted by Steven Yong in computer at 00:43 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yea... Most of the time, because of our kiasu spirit, we jump on to a new version because of the features of the DB.

Take for instance, MSSQL2000, not many people have moved on to the new MSSQL2005 server unless they were planning to upgrade their Windows boxes.

Other than that, like you said, when one big vendor announces EOL (end of life), you've got no choice but to make the big move. Either upgrade or ship out (migration??? God Forbid).

Otherwise, it is kind of hard to convince management to move to a new version of a product because the ROI doesn't immediately become apparent to them.