Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

Hi,

6.1 is good but the best is yet to come in V7 (or whatever they call the next release). The DB2 newsgroup has said that plans (although always subject to change) include:

• a procedural stored procedure language
• temporary tables
• external savepoints
• identity data type
• nested stored procedures

and much much more. Compatibility with the mainframe is always important and is getting closer and closer. From application, API, DDL, and DML perspective, that compatibility is pretty much there. In fact, some people use it on LAN platforms for development and target the mainframe for execution.

jahorsch_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> In article <38B42FDC.CE7FD167_at_us.ibm.com>,
> Larry Edelstein <lsedels_at_us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > To answer your question, Oracle had both DB2 UDB and Informix as real
> > competition prior to SQL Server 7. And as of now, if you ask any of
 the
> > major consulting firms like Gartner, Meta, Giga or if you cruise the
 press,
> > you will find that DB2 UDB is still "real" competition for Oracle ...
 very
> > real.
> >
> Too bad the best product never wins. I think DB2 has the best ANSI 92
> implementation and probably is the most tunable. When it comes to
> features I think DB2 may have the edge slightly over Oracle and when it
> comes to pricing DB2 certainly does pretty well too. Of course based on
> your email you wouldnt have any bias? I havent used it very much but
> right now I am a fortune 100 company that has everything from Teradata
> to UDB. I am intrested to see what 6.1 can do. Does the Mainframe
> have pretty much the same functionality now?
>
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Received on Wed Feb 23 2000 - 00:00:00 CST