Re: Adjusting to DB2

From: Mark A <nobody_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 08:36:55 -0600
Message-ID: <b-GdnTDuS6KZPcbeRVn-jQ@comcast.com>

"Rodrick Brown" <rodrick.brown_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:HpE6f.13065$h25.12317_at_news-wrt-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com...
> We are a 100% Oracle shop OLTP & data warehousing but, we will be
> supporting a new application that was build for DB2, how easy would it be
> to transition Oracle skills to DB2 skills ? is it relistic to think with a
> week of traning and few books one can easily pick up DB2 and run with it.
>
> Thanks in advance for all those who are managing both DB2 and Oracle :-)
> --
> Rodrick R. Brown
> Unix Systems Admin
> http://www.rodrickbrown.com
> rodrick.brown[@]gmail.com
>

Since you are picking up an existing application, you only need to worry about basic administration tasks such backup, recovery, reorgs, runstats, etc. These are easy to learn and to perform.

If the application developer/vendor does not supply you with db and dbm configuration parms (which mostly determine the amount of memory that is allocated for various needs), then you might want to get some advice on these. But these are usually one-time setup considerations. Received on Sun Oct 23 2005 - 09:36:55 CDT