Re: Help: Sybase V Oracle V DB2 ???

Naran,

The IBM RS6000 site has a extensive help for migrating from Oracle to DB2. If you look it up you will find advice for both planning (estimating the size etc.) and the technical execution (lists of function names in DB2 compared to their counterparts in Oracle including information on whether substr() returns left-trimmed strings or not etc.).

Hope this helps and good luck,
Joost

Naran Hirani <N.Hirani_at_hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> wrote in message news:381479F0.65AE765D_at_hgmp.mrc.ac.uk...
> Hi Guys,
>
> My organization may soon have to move from Sybase ASE v11.9 to one of
> the two big players above.
> I was therefore wondering if there are any people out there with
> experiences, good, bad, or indifferent
> regarding the above major DBMSs. Currently, we are seriously
> considering going down the DB2
> route as Oracle is being less than co-operative in negotiating a deal to
> match our smallish budget. My
> initial thoughts on DB2 are that it is technically a sound DBMS, maybe
> even quite superior to Sybase.
> Oracle I know little of, and from hear-say, I understand that it is a
> bit of dog to administer.
>
> Your comments would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance for your
> anticipated replies.
>
> Regards,
> Naran Hirani
>
Received on Wed Oct 27 1999 - 14:42:20 CDT