Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.

Hi Larry!

There is a difference between in-house DBA and seeing the response of every select Statement on production and being highly paid IBM on-call consultant. No company will contact IBM consultant for db2start.

I wish you should have taken it like Bill Gates took new Windows release crash in a big conference. He immediately admitted developers have to fix the code.

Peter

Larry Edelstein <lsedels_at_us.ibm.com> wrote in message news:<3F6C831C.F45A9D85_at_us.ibm.com>...
> 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 Mon Sep 22 2003 - 19:13:06 CEST