Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

DB2 UDB 6.1 supports LDAP, if that's what you are asking.

Norris wrote:

> Is it true that DB2 6.1 will support Active Directory, the Kerberos security model, single sign-on and raw-disk partitioning?
>
> http://www.varbusiness.com/search/display.asp?ArticleID=13353
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> In comp.databases.sybase Larry <lsedels_at_us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Yes, DB2 UDB EEE.
 

> > Norris wrote:
 

> >> May I know if there is any other similiar RDBMS implementation like the SQL 2000's "Shared Nothing" technology?
> >>
> >> In comp.databases.sybase Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> >> > Shared nothing referes to system resources only.
> >> > Versus shared everything or shared disk.. and so on.
> >> > The trick is to minimize the network-traffic and the one there is,
> >> > better be fast.
> >> > There are certain types of queries that are more applicable for
> >> > parallelization
> >> > than others and it is also important to decide in how far it makes sense
> >> > to e.g.
> >> > replicate data on versus nodes.
> >> > Scalability is not automatic. It depends heavily on the quality of the
> >> > optimizer,
> >> > the DB schema, infrastructure and the nature of the query.
> >> > E.g. an insert of one row will not run faster by adding more machines.
> >> > A select count(*) from t on a nicely partitioned table however will
> >> > scale very well.
 

> >> > Just my two cents
> >> > Cheers
> >> > Serge
> >>
> >> --
> >> JULY
>
> --
> JULY
Received on Thu Mar 02 2000 - 00:00:00 CST