Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!priapus.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!uunet!ash.uu.net!news.chips.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!hanover.torolab.ibm.com!not-for-mail From: Serge Rielau Newsgroups: comp.databases.ibm-db2,comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Which one is better? Oracel 9i or DB2 7.2?? Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 09:25:39 -0400 Organization: IBM Canada Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3CD532D3.3C15CB72@ca.ibm.com> References: <3CCD6A14.6090206@netcape.net> <3CCD83D2.7FF034C@exesolutions.com> <2mkA8.1185$t%5.437402@newssvr28.news.prodigy.com> <3CD25A7B.854E4BF7@nospam.for.me> <3CD315EC.A487472B@ca.ibm.com> <3CD3E4A1.C2E4B155@ca.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cr124698-a.torolab.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: easynews comp.databases.ibm-db2:60085 comp.databases.oracle.server:145930 X-Received-Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 06:45:47 MST (news.easynews.com) 8 or 9 years ago the difference between DB2 390 and DB2 UDB was that the second barely existed. That's like complaining about a bug/deficiencies in Oracle 7 (or further?). Also AFAIK that long ago there was a lot less dynamic SQL around, especially on a mainframe. Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 UDB SQL Compiler Development IBM Software Lab, Canada