On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 13:40, Sharpe, Richard wrote: > Erik > > I am a DBA and have been for over 20 years and my all time favorite > RDBMS is DB2 and now especially that it runs on LINUX and that the LINUX > flavor of DB2 is enjoying much attention from IBM, I think it is hands down > better than Oracle.
Ahhh - you've proclaimed knowledge of another RDBMS - you must now subject yourself to public questioning. *grin* Seriously though, I do have some questions: 1) How difficult is it to administrate? With mysql, for the most part we set it up and just leave it. Occassionally we have to add (or remove) permissions to connect to it for a given user or host, but other than that it just sits there. On top of which, mysql is incredibly simple to set up, IMHO. Would we need a full time DBA for DB2? 2) Do I need a super beast of a machine to run a big database? Right now we have a 3.6 Gig database running on a dual Xeon 2.4GHz with 4 GB of memory ... which is actually quite a bit of overkill for our dataset and usage. 3) Does it support realtime replication? Two way replication? 4) I'm assuming it has the full feature set (things I'm not used to having in MySQL) such as triggers, stored procedures, views, etc? What language(s) is/are supported for the stored procedures? 5) Is there a free version that can be used for evaluation/development purposes? I understand you may not know the answer to these questions, but any answers you do have would be interesting, to me at least. 8) -- Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
