Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?
Date: 29 Oct 2004 03:33:09 -0700
Message-ID: <73e20c6c.0410290233.28bf2523_at_posting.google.com>
"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.net> wrote in message news:<Tzifd.6802$HA.6215_at_attbi_s01>...
> If this is the same Ingres I used awhile ago I wouldn't touch it with a ten
> foot pole even if you paid me. The concurrency model sucks, start a
> transaction, insert a record, lock 95% of the table if it has a primary
> key - because the page locks on the index locks most of the pages. NO ONE
> ELSE COULD GET ANY WORK DONE, unless you threw out the transaction model and
> went to auto commit. POS.
The very same POS. That got shafted out of the market PRECISELY because of the crap it always was. Did you ever try crashing the server? Best way to ensure you lost all your work, with Ingres. Received on Fri Oct 29 2004 - 12:33:09 CEST