Re: Which one is better? Oracel 9i or DB2 7.2??

"Mike Ault" <mikerault_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:37fab3ab.0205060755.70ab66b4_at_posting.google.com...
> "The Nomad" <nobody_at_nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:<E%xA8.386545$K52.62427326_at_typhoon.tampabay.rr.com>...
>
> May I suggest you employ some expert Oracle tuning help and, move to
> 9i as soon as possible. The enhancements in 9i will eliminate some
of
> the negatives you have experienced. One ot the strengths of Oracle,
> its ability to be used across multiple platforms, also results in
the
> tuning issues you have described. If they only supported one
platform
> a database could be pretuned and optimized for that platform.
>

I don't agree with that last sentence. Oracle works with hardware vendors to provide ports. It is a tug-o-war of sorts to have one-off's for given vendors but it is possible to do so. The tuning issue is not because of multi-platform issues.

Also, suggesting that people move to 9i, while a good idea, I can only imagine what new bugs Oracle has provided for 'us' to debug. <g>

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