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In short -- type 2 storage areas are the foundation that all new database features are built upon. Hardly any of "the good stuff" is available for type 1 areas. http://dbappraise.com/ppt/sos.pptx To upgrade to oe10 or oe11 and continue running type 1 storage is missing the point. Without them you may as well be running v9 from a dba point of view. Yes, you might argue that if you have a tiny database that is hardly used there isn't much benefit. But if that is the case it is also hardly any effort to convert. And by converting you will be ready for the day when your company (or if you are a reseller, one of your customers) suddenly says "oh, our db is 1TB of data and performs like a pig wallowing in mud". Also -- if you are asking this question it seems likely that you may also be unaware of the need to be running after-imaging. http://dbappraise.com/ppt/ai.pptx Every database that has valuable data in it should be running after-imaging. If you are not running with after-imaging you are basically saying that you don't care if you lose your database.
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