Well said. Those are great reasons for moving forward.
As a gate, a test suite or “regression test” that key features still worked
correctly and that any plan degradations were either still within performance
tolerance or had a count of underflowing performance requirements that could be
handled was also useful.
Larry put it extremely well when he answered why the first release of Oracle
that was sold was “Version 2.” ( “We knew no one would want to buy version 1”.)
Good luck. I don’t believe you will be able to get a reliable report of the
percentage of each version and patch release in use. I write this with some
confidence that enough sites are prohibited by confidentiality and security
requirements from answering such questions to make any report of versions in
use reliable.
And very likely any report from Oracle Marketing is correlated with percentage
of licensees making some use of the latest release.
Again, good luck.
mwf
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Don’t know about the percentages, but, when I was a DBA and DBA manager, we
upgraded for one (or more) of four reasons, usually in this order
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2. Lack of support (auditors love to jump on this one)
3. Cost of extended support (bean counters will jump on this)
4. There’s a new feature we need (or is required by an application)
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Hi all,
Is there a study that shows the percentage of used Oracle versions in 2021?
Hopefully not influenced by the Oracle marketing team.
I am also interested in knowing what motivates users to go to a new version. As
well as what scares them to upgrade.
Opinions from some experienced DBAs would be helpful.
Thanks
Ahmed
