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Our WF server had Oracle 8i client installed originally. We have a requirement to upgrade it to 10g. Our DBA is installing 10g client so we'll have both 8i and 10g client. Then we can do our test.
Is there a way to force the adapter to use the 10g client instead? Is there a configuration setting for this?
Thanks in advance.
Dev: WebFOCUS 7.6.10, Data Migrator 7.6.10 QA: WebFOCUS 7.6.10, Data Migrator 7.6.10 Prod: WebFOCUS 7.6.2, Data Migrator 7.6.8 Windows 2K3, Tomcat 5.5.17, IIS 6 Usage: HTML, PDF, Excel, Self-serve, BID and MRE
Posts: 197 | Location: Roseville, CA | Registered: January 24, 2005
ODBC is ODBC. You won't see any performance difference, but 10g does have a lot of features that make life good for a DBA....especially if he's going from 8i to 10g.
Now, he'll spend the better part of his day putting on patches. Bless his heart.
Prod: Single Windows 2008 Server running Webfocus 7.7.03 Reporting server Web server IIS6/Tomcat, AS400 DB2 database.
Another consideration... you may want to check to see if there are some Oracle system variables that need to be modified to toggle between the two versions. I would check the Oracle client documentation for those.
Posts: 22 | Location: Atlanta | Registered: January 19, 2007
Thanks for the replies. It looks like we will need to remove all the adapters associated with Oracle 8i and re-create them all using the new Oracle 10g client.
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Posts: 197 | Location: Roseville, CA | Registered: January 24, 2005