Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.

Peter ... I have worked with many customers for more than two years who have never experienced this problem.

You are still not providing any specifics or details on this. What are you afraid of? At this point, I must assume that this never happened. I'm sorry. It doesn't take much to provide evidence.

Larry Edelstein

Peter wrote:

> Hi Larry!
>
> Regarding your comment on continue to trash DB2, I wish you should not
> take it in negative way. I find same problem in DB2 as in OS/2.
>
> I have worked on OS/2 and technically it is far superior than Microsoft
> Windows. It did have same issue of all of sudden crashed problem that was
> resolved in few years. Unfortunately MS already had the market before that.
>
> If you find my info is incorrect, I am just asking you to work on one
> install of DB2 for 2 years. You will see instance disappearance and when
> you type db2start; it starts as if nothing has happened. It simply forgets
> and forgives it. I have never seen database starting like that and forgetting
> why it crashed all of sudden in production. It is good and bad both. As
> a DBA you have to start instance again only and blame poor developers
> for wrong SQL statements. Poor guy only did select on a table with
> a simple where clause. I have been asked to give query details; there is
> nothing in the query other than select on one table with one condition
> on where clause. Simply blame the DB2 developers as a workaround.
>
> Peter
>
> "Neil Truby" <neil.truby_at_ardenta.com> wrote in message news:<bkhah6$1qke9$1_at_ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> > "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> > news:1064018434.923612_at_yasure...
> > > Larry Edelstein wrote:
> >
> > > Is this really going to change anyone's mind? Do you really believe what
> > > someone uses as a reference platform is going to make the CFO of a
> > > company write a big check? Change their infrastructure? Migrate their
> > > existing applications? Get a major university to start offering courses?
> > > Maybe they use it as a reference platform because they were cut a
> > > sweetheart deal? How can anyone possibly know what decision was made on
> > > the 17th hole after a few martinis and a pair of tickets to the World
> > > Series or the SuperBowl?
> >
> > How terribly cynical of you, Daniel!
Received on Sat Sep 20 2003 - 18:41:00 CEST