Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:06:01 -0700
Message-ID: <1098493507.519861@yasure>

JS wrote:

> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1098250365.710337_at_yasure>...
>

>>Rhino wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Nobody's looking for a free ride. He/we just wanted to hear from people who
>>>had used BOTH products to see what their pros and cons were. He/we also
>>>wanted recommendations about good independent sources of reviews of these
>>>products. That's exactly what I asked for.
>>>
>>>Rhino
>>
>>And exactly what you are not going to get as I haven't found a single
>>post from anyone that believes you. It is absolutely impossible for the
>>situation you presented to be true.

>
>
> the true answer to the original question posted, which was, which db
> is better, is: it's a tie, both products under the control of
> experienced DBA('s) (and let's not forget the developer's) will do the
> job for which they were designed.
> Both products can scale indefinately, perhaps db2 has better locking
> mechanism but overall you would have to slice the product very thinly
> to declare a true winner. That said, db2 is cheaper, so in my mind you
> get more bang for the buck with db2.

Another one that gave into the temptation to render an opinion when the better man would have ignored the temptation. Repent. ;-)

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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