Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?

michael newport wrote:
> I used Ingres for 15 years
> I have now used Oracle for 1 year
> I am doing the same work now that I did on Ingres, except Oracle costs
> a lot of money, and Ingres is free.
>
> You can download Ingres from www.ca.com and give it a test.

Perhaps rather than doing on Oracle what you used to do on Ingres you should try leveraging what Oracle can do and do things differently.

Your statement is roughly equivalent to ... I used to build houses with a hammer. Now I work in a glass factory and ....

Had you said 15 years of Ingres and 1 year of DB2 or Informix or 3x5 cards I'd have given the same advice.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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