Re: Database market share 2004

In article <42a00a2f$0$29637$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>, jurgen_at_fake.dom says...
> DA Morgan wrote:
> > Jurgen Haan wrote:
>
> > There is another important reason too: Instrumentation. If they are
> > slow diagnosing why is a question of making guesses. That may be a
> > reasonable approach when supporting a small non-commercial web site.
> > It is a non-starter when talking terabytes and a requirement for 7x24.
> > And then there's that little problem with government requirements
> > around audits. They just aren't ready for prime-time.
>
> 24x7 is actually no problem with OSS db's like Postgres.
> At the company where I work we have a DB2 DB and a Postgres DB running.
> Neither of them have to be taken down during maintenance.

We've run a number of plants that produce all sorts of products for places like Kellogs and Nabisco on SQL Server 7 and 2000 and they run 24x7x365 and do so for years.

I also know of a number of car part JIT vendors that use SQL Server with 10,000+ transactions per day, yea, it's not a lot, but it's still running for years without a problem.

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