Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?
Date: 27 Oct 2004 00:21:35 -0700
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"Rhino" <rhino1_at_NOSPAM.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<33xcd.373$JG5.58933_at_news20.bellglobal.com>...
> One of my friends, Scott, is a consultant who doesn't currently have
> newsgroup access so I am asking these questions for him. I'll be telling him
> how to monitor the answers via Google Newsgroup searches.
>
> Scott has heard a lot of hype about DB2 and Oracle and is trying to
> understand the pros and cons of each product. I'm quite familiar with DB2
> but have never used Oracle so I can't make any meaningful comparisons for
> him. He does not have a lot of database background but sometimes has to
> choose or recommend a database to his clients.
>
> Scott has enough life-experience to take the marketing information produced
> by IBM and Oracle with a grain of salt and would like to hear from real
> DBAs, especially ones who are fluent with both products, for their views on
> two questions:
>
> 1. What are the pros and cons of the current releases of DB2 and Oracle?
>
> 2. What other sources of *independent* information are available to help
> someone new to databases choose between DB2 and Oracle?
>
> This is *not* a troll and we don't want to start a flame war! Scott just
> want some honest facts to help him decide which product is best at which
> jobs.
Hi,
without going into much religious talking, ask yourself:
How many OS versions of DB2 are on the market? How many OS versions of Oracle?
Some of the things I like in Oracle
being blocked by writes i.e.)
yk
at least, all databases return the data that you store, Received on Wed Oct 27 2004 - 09:21:35 CEST