Any Oracle/DB2 dual DBAs out there that can comment on the Rauch report (no
doubt financed by Oracle Corp)?
http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/theme_pages/index.html?ma_04252003.
html
Not that I'm particularly impressed on the ease of generating stats in
Oracle vs. DB2, but I'm just
If you go on DB2 site,
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/pubs/pdfs/dhbrown.pdf , you'll find a
similar document that concludes that TCO of DB2 is below Oracle's one.
Stephane Paquette
Administrateur de bases de donnees
Database Administrator
Standard Life
www.standardlife.ca
Tel. (514) 499-7999
Having seen the report previously I can say that IMHO it's an apples vs. oranges
report. Given an experienced DBA on both systems I still believe that can do the same
basic task in a similar amount of time effort. Why, because they 1) understand the
process for their RDBMS, and 2) they've
