Re: No future for DB2

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:27:05 -0600, Mark A interested us by writing:

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> I have seen 9i and 10g shops that don't use RMAN.

So have I. Generally for one of two reasons:

1. As a result of their experience with RMAN in Oracle8. (And, of course, since it was not ready for prime time then, obviously it can't have improved in the mean time. <g>)
2. They have their own way of doing backups, and are happy to pay money, either to a third party vendor or to their development staff, to keep it going. (Unfortunately in my experience, often without a restore mechanism.)

Funny that companies go out of their way to get the lastest verion of some graphically-based OSs which provide less-than minimal incremental benefit to the business (except perhaps more efficient ways of obtaining RSIs) but refuse to use, or even to consider, that which is available in Oracle "because of standards". C'est la vie.

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