Download Oracle 8.1.6

[Karen99]

Does anybody know where I can download Oracle 8.1.6. Oldest version on Oracle website is 8.1.7.

Thanks
Karen

 

[bastienk]

Unavailable from oracle as it is no longer supported...


Bastien

Cat, the other other white meat

 

[Overdoos]

8.1.6 is indeed no longer supported, so I couldn't really tell you chare to download that one.

If 8.1.7 can help you on your way, I would suggest you download it fast because support for 8i will stop somewhere this year. Thus, there will no longer be official downloads available either.

 

[Overdoos]

uhm...

if you need to know the exact dates on the end-of-life of 8i, read:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?SQID=829275&SPID=186&page=2

 

[SantaMufasa]

Karen,

If you don't mind my asking, what is the business need that compels you to find a copy of 8.1.6? If we knew that, perhaps we can offer an solution that meets your need.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA @ 09:58 (06May04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"), 02:58 (06May04) Mountain Time)

 

[Karen99]

Thank you for everybody's replies. I just came back from the client, and convinced them that I can develop on Oracle 8.1.7. I am just going to run scripts against their database. I don't think it wil create any problems if I create the scripts on 8.1.7 and run it on 8.1.6.

Cheers
Karen

 

[SantaMufasa]

Karen,

That is correct. A useful setting for your development environment will be to have your DBA place the parameter "compatible = 8.1.6" in your init<SID>.ora parameter file. That allows Oracle to assist you in flagging commands that will not behave properly when running on 8.1.6.

Cheers,

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA @ 15:27 (07May04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"), 08:27 (07May04) Mountain Time)

 

[Kaiserr2]

I don't know if this would require a new thread or not, what about people that need to back-up an 8.1.6 database but can find any 8.1.6 version for download to use the export utility?

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
IIRC,The EXP/IMP versions are 'major' release related so
any 8.1 version should work with it..
( I think...I know that 8.0.x and 9.x will NOT work with 8.1.x)
Please check the docs on this, however...

 

[Kaiserr2]

8.1.7 was the earliest version i could download from Oracle and it did not work.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Oh Well....We live and learn.

Sorry for the misinformation...