Re: IBM Debunks Oracle's MultiVersion Read Consistency ?

Nuno Souto wrote:

> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3EB919C7.A4EF4DD1_at_exxesolutions.com>...
>
> > Certainly Tivoli, etc. can be used to secure DB2. But it is a separate product from a separate company
> > requiring a separate license ... and raises the cost of ownership significantly. The database, in and of
> > itself, has no security. And in a Windows environment that is a significant issue.
>
> UDB is so fundamentaly freakin UNSAFE the admin password
> is stored, UNENCRYPTED, in the first 100 bytes of the first
> data file! Just dump it out and look.
>
> About time some of the "dirties" of UDB/DB2 start to
> get exposure so their idiotic marketing gets their
> heads bashed-in. Instead of bad-mouthing other products,
> why don't they go to their R&D and ask them to FIX THE
> FREAKIN SOFTWARE, for a change?
>
> Talk about "security".
> Yeah, right!
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam

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