Re: db2 vs oracle

Flame wars .... here we come! <sigh>

Ollie wrote:

> You're using a wrong approach to determine the RDBMS that will suit
> your need. The kind of application you're thinking of running should
> be the first concern. Are you goning to be running OLTP, DDS or
> datawarehouse application. I don't think Oracle will bet UDB, Sybase
> or SQL Server when it comes to OLTP application. As far as
> datawarehouse is concern, Sybase has a specific product that is design
> for that specific application called Sybase IQ.

Oracle is as good, if not better, with OLTP as the others.

Like any environment, you have to understand it properly to be able to use it properly.

Statements like "I don't think Oracle will bet UDB, Sybase or SQL Server ..." generally are based on "I learned how to do it efficiently on 'x' but those principals don't apply to 'y' therefore 'y' is bad."

Of course, Ollie is using a traditional 'more competitor names is relevant' tactic, conveniently forgetting that Sybase sold their soul to Microsoft by giving them what is now SQL Server.

>
> The mistake organization make when picking database platform is the
> same kind I am seeing from the approach you're taken. If you running
> mission critical application, then you should be concern about backup
> and recovery. Oracle backup and recovery is too complicated otherwise
> they won't need a 4 days training seesion on the topic. It takes a
> couple of hours to teach the same function in other platform. My point
> is that you have to think of what is important in the application
> you're running.

Oracle Backup and Recovery is not difficult - you do need to understand it though. Since backups are really only relevant for recovery, the course is designed to give a large number of scenarios in recovery that you actually practise so that you do not need to 'practise' or look like a dodo to mamangement when a crash actually occurs.

Besides, the course includes other items, such as Oracle Networking.

My point is that Ollie is attempting to use irrelevant information, or pure FUD, to prove his point.

Religion in software, like ignorance, is bliss.

/Hans Received on Fri Aug 27 2004 - 15:19:30 CEST