Re: No future for DB2

Noons wrote:

>HansF wrote:
>> 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.)

> I've seen a third-one:
> they run Standard Edition and RMAN's functionality on
> that one is brain-damageed and they can't take full
> advantage of the product. So they stick to the good
> old scripts that do exactly the same.

4) they are managing a database that belongs to a commercial application - which provides its own backup/restore capability.

5) production & development dbas are kept in separate teams. Production is often outsourced, and often can do very little besides start & stop the database. Anything outside the repetitive daily steps is risky due to the severe lack of experience on the part of the dbas. This kind of shop often moves the development dbas to other projects as soon as their waterfall steps are complete - so there's typically nobody else to help in the transition. In this scenario nothing is changed until something breaks catastrophically. Received on Sun Jul 31 2005 - 22:45:14 CDT