2006/3/22, "Döhr, Markus ICC-H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> [...]
> > I am not particularly worried about my position, however this
> > sounds amazingly good.
> > Is this true? Do any of you do dba like work on these
> > databases or are they really self maintaining?
> > My experience is that no matter how automated systems get
> > inevitable you need someone to maintain the tools that do this too.
>
> We use those database in all our SAP environment and we are in fact very
> happy with it :)
>
> Of course, every software product needs a "maintainer" who will check, if
> backups were successfull, apply patches and have a look, that everything is
> right.

Definitely.

> MaxDB has a complete different data storage approach as e. g. Oracle or DB2.
> There are not tablespaces, datafiles, extents, and controlfiles. MaxDB uses
> Volumes and spreads the data accross those volumes. You have no influence
> where a table is stored so you will never run into "hotspots".

But it also means that you have no chance to optimize it if the usage
pattern is bad; and unfortunately there is no way to change the size
of a volume (is there?).  I personally found SQL Server to be the most
hassle free RDBMS I have worked with.  I'm sorry to say that on this
list but also YMMV...

Kind regards

robert

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