Re: Trying to decide whether to support DB2 or Oracle

Some answers below

David Williams wrote:

> In article <3AF86FE4.E3298016_at_ca.ibm.com>, Blair Kenneth Adamache
> <adamache_at_ca.ibm.com> writes
> >It's definitely on our to-do list. We're examining the choices we'd have to
> >make to
> >deliver this in a future release. We won't deliver this as quickly we we
> >delivered
> >Sequence support (i.e. this is bigger than the next fixpak).
> >
>
> I'm the owner of the Informix FAQ and a general Informix guru of
> 9 years experience.
>
> - Who holds the list of new features who we of the user group are
> requesting?

We don't use the web (yet) for requirements gathering.

>
>
> - Where is the FAQ?

Bernd Hohhman has a good FAQ at:

 http://www.harddiskcafe.de/db2faq/index.html

>
>
> - Where are the manuals for DB2? The informix ones are at
> www.informix.com/answers but IBM's Website seems confusing.

See: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/data/db2/library/

>
> - Can someone give an overview of the architecture of DB2.
> IBM's Website is all sales talk about B2B and enhancing the
> enterprise. Is DB2 multithreaded/multi process,

Threaded on Windows and OS/2, process-based on Unix (threaded applications are supported on Unix)

> how is transaction
> logging handled, what is the process used to recover from crashes?

standard ARIES, replay the logs during crash recovery, all standard SQL92 isolation levels supported

>
> I want a technical architecture document. What is the difference
> between plain DB2 and this EE thingy?

No difference. EEE (Enterprise - Extended Edition) is a shared-nothing version of EE (like Informix XPS) built with the same compile of EE (what Arrowhead is aimed at).

>
>
> - I've tried downloading the free trial version of DB2 from
> IBM's Web site but cannot get gozilla (from gozilla.com) to
> handle the download. Either I get
>
> a) Standard Save/Open dialog - like I'm going to assume a 150Mb
> download will succeed first time
> b) Some downloads and be resuming but only using this Distribution
> applet thingy - like I'm going install more software and run
> unknown applets and install some kind of unknown plugin..
> who do I complain to ??
>
> I want to be able to a) resume ALL downloads not just some,
> b) use gozilla/getright/whatever else I currently use to handle
> the download.
>
> Most questions later...
>
> --
> David Williams
Received on Wed May 09 2001 - 04:17:08 CEST