I'm curious why you'd avoid a release that has been well-deployed and available for 18 months or more now? With many new features expected in 11g R2, would you consider it "better" (as in "safer" I presume) than 11g R1? Just curious on your reasons as I don't see any reason to avoid 11g R1 at this point. Especially when the bugs that may have been introduced with this new release should be fixed with 11.1.0.7. Dan On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > I usually try to avoid the first > releases (as in 11g r1). >