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Re: Oracle vs DB2 on heavy OLTP loads

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 18:05:01 -0700
Message-ID: <1116378065.214314@yasure>


dbguy456_at_yahoo.com wrote:

>>Dunno what you call heavily loaded, but does 5000 users with

>
> 30Mrow/day classify?
> Sure it does, thanks. But Oracle 8 doesn't really qualify as a 100%
> relevant experience (as I've already told, DB2 v7 was rock-solid, but
> v8 is quite unstable, to be polite - and how can I be sure it's not the
> case with Oracle 8 / 10g? ).

Simply put cause of database instability is incompetent SysAdmins and DBAs so I am hesitant to give you a simplistic answer. But I can tell you that I have not seen a well managed 9i or 10g database go down except by intent of its owner.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Tue May 17 2005 - 20:05:01 CDT

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