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There are many advantages. Some of them are:
1) adding objects to the database
2) adding new data type such as BLOB/CLOB
3) new administrative options like moving tables between tablespaces
4) many NEW dbms packages
5) writing JAVA code inside Oracle
6) passing parameters to sp with the NOCOPY Option
7) smart sqlloader options
8) can work with array types
9) the new log miner
There is also a tip I wrote about the advantages of 8i that you can also read.
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