Re: Adjusting to DB2

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message news:1130257596.615508_at_yasure...
> fitzjarrell_at_cox.net wrote:
>
> Typical MarkA. Trying to understand something? Becoming educated on the
> subject? Never the criteria.
>
> And no different from his knee-jerk assumption that I don't have years
> of experience with DB2. On the mainframe. At Boeing. He, in his personal
> reality, assumes that if you use another product in preference to DB2
> it means he has permission to manufacture any claim he wishes and then
> pronounce it as though it were fact.
>
> Luckily the world only works that way in politics, court rooms, and on
> the lots of used car dealers.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan

DB2 for z/OS and DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows are different products. If you are familiar with DB2 for z/OS then I am very happy for you. But you know VERY little about DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, which is the main competitor to Oracle.

The term "instrumentation" is not used anywhere in DB2 for z/OS literature and I don't recall seeing it in Oracle manuals either. Maybe it is used in marketing brochures, but I don't read those. I stated rather clearly what my assumption was regarding the term instrumentation. I may have been wrong, but I did not attempt to deceive anyone.

I don't care which product you use. I use both DB2 and Oracle these days, and have used just about every other DBMS before that. Received on Tue Oct 25 2005 - 20:46:35 CDT