Re: 3vl 2vl and NULL

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1134096079.471233.306790_at_g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> David Cressey wrote:
> > "dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:1134055293.865826.300270_at_g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > > If you were to look at the dollars spent on U2 and the dollars spent
on
> > > DB2, ... I'm certain there are many more features in DB2, and I
> > > respect the product (without having used it in any production
> > > environment) but it is SQL-based which might explain why I suspect
> > > suspect that if we could have a database-shootout for use in software
> > > development, U2 just might win.
> >
> > You're begging the question.
> > If there's something wrong with DB2, can you identify what's wrong?
>
> I have not spent enough time with DB2 to do anything more than lump it
> with other SQL DBMS tools. Sorry.
>
> > If there's something wrong with SQL, can you identify what's wrong?
>
> I believe that over the past couple of years I have identified several
> things that make it a less productive tool than what I might want.
> I'll give just one example: You cannot back an arbitrary "screen" (UI,
> e.g. web page) with a SQL VIEW even though views need not be
> normalized.
>
> >
> > What's a "database shootout", anyway?
>
> I can't believe i called it a shootout when I could have called it a
> bake-off. It is a competition. Because most benchmarks in the dbms
> area are based on SQL, there is standard way to give comparison data of
> SQL DBMS tools with SQL-as-a-second-language tools (non-1NF DBMS's, for
> example). There could be a competition where requirements are given
> for an application and developers write the apps. A panel could judge
> the solutions. This tests the entire development environment, rather
> than strictly the DBMS, but a DBMS would be one of the tools in a
> winning solution. I wish I could find a competition like this. Last
> year Spectrum International help one strictly for MultiValue/Pick
> vendors. --dawn
>

Why would a competition like this yield a different result than the marketplace?

Not that it couldn't happen. But why? Received on Fri Dec 09 2005 - 13:15:36 CET