Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.glorb.com!tdsnet-transit!newspeer.tds.net!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-09!sn-xit-08!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DA Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: DB2 UDB or Oracle (who has better support) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:32:50 -0800 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1109881780.742577@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <39f5d1d003b240fd963478370570c834@DBMonster.com> <1109818455.147931@yasure> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 44 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:237392 Mark A wrote: > "DA Morgan" wrote in message > news:1109818455.147931@yasure... > >>This is not true. There are very substantial differences between the >>products in terms of architecture, concepts, and capabilities. In one >>sense they can all be used to create a back-end that "will work." But >>the capabilities built-in versus those one has to code themselves or >>purchase from a third-party vendor vary dramatically. >> > > Is that relevent for using SAP? No it is relevant to the comment that the back-end databases are the essentially the same. I thought your reading comprehension better. ;-) >>Then don't but what features of the database do you care about? What >>matters to you? How about the fact that DB2 has a different code base >>for different operating systems. Change from UNIX to Windows and you >>might as well be changing to Sybase. >> >>Daniel A. Morgan > > > That is not accurate. DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows has the code base > except for Operating System issues. They share all the same manuals. If that is true, which I don't believe but don't have time to validate I stand corrected. Replace Windows with Mac OS/X. Oh that's right DB2 doesn't support it. Ok ... OS/400. > DB2 for AS/400, DB2 for Z/OS (mainframe), and DB2 for VM all have different > code bases and all different from DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. But at > the SQL level, they are pretty close. Pretty close doesn't cut it when a table name or column name doesn't fit into the data dictionary. They are different ... they are ... just accept it. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)