Re: No future for DB2

>> I don't find DB2 to be any easier to learn than Oracle
>
> There are corners of the product that can be a little more complex -
> perhaps locking sometimes, plans and static sql if you decide to use
> it. On the flip side there are areas that are much easier. The
> glaring one is backup & restore, that's a critical activity that's a
> piece of cake compared to oracle.
>

In fact, the tasks you pointed out are used much more frequently than backup and recovery.

>
> In my opinion db2 is pretty easy to learn - it would have been far more
> difficult to get these guys to the same point in Oracle.
>

This is a pure assumption. Apparently they have not been Oracle trained.

> On the flip side, SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgresql would have been
> even easier than DB2 - but then again their scalability limitations
> (parallelism/partitioning/optimizer/etc) would have pushed so much
> extra complexity into the design it probably would have been tougher
> after all.
>

I agree that SQL Server admin is easier to learn, but development is another story. MySQL is absolutely not easier to learn, perhaps fewer things to learn due to lack of features. Received on Fri Jul 29 2005 - 20:12:09 CDT