Re: IBM DB2 serious alternative to Oracle/Informix?

Tim Schaefer wrote:

> Glenn Hoffman wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > The NT and Unix versions share much of the same code as the
 OS/2 versions
> > and is very similair to the mainframe DB/2
> >
> >
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> > Glenn Hoffman cws_at_atlanta.com voice:
 770-795-0155
> > Team OS/2

 fax: 770-795-0355
> >
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> Yeah, I looked at the NT version just to see what the buzz is all
> about.
> The interface sucks! Gives me the creeps.
>
> Did they send the DB2 team for NT to a special school to make the
> interface
> as gawd-awful as it is? It is absolutely the most bland, boring,
> yucky
> interface out there. Don't know about the performance, but it reminds
>
> me
> of the old IBM look-and-feel:

[SNIP] Performance wise I was impressed.

We took a 5,2 mil, 1,2 mil and 700 hthousand row table from an MVS platform and tested it on an IBM PC Server 500 with 2x100 CPU's, 64 Meg and SCSI disks (non striped).

We did a query in 38 minutes while it takes 8 min on the MVS machine.

LB Received on Thu Jul 03 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT