I totally disagree. It is the very purpose and nature of this discussion group,
to share ideas and experiences. Actually, I don't think we see enough product
specific input. After all, it is these tools that we depend on.
Rita Parrott wrote:
> Greetings to everyone:
>
> This is the first time that I have ever responded to this list. The
> reason I am choosing to do so now is to state that we should not fill up the
> emails with testimonials about certain products. Does anyone know if the
> Gartner group or another objective organization has evaluated and published
> results?
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Beecher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 7:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Mercator
>
> Not at all -
>
> Mercator is the fastest tool, hands down.
>
> If you don't use it correctly, you can create unoptimized situations. The
> strength of the tool is that it is so flexable, you can choose the most
> optimized method of acheiving your objective.
>
> What Mercator is doing is creating an extract file. Then it rips through
> this extract file to transform it to your output. Most likely you should
> pay attention to optimizing the query that creates the extracted data. Also
> if you are using ODBC, you might see a performance increase by using
> Mercator's native db driver for your database instead of ODBC.
>
> Anthony Beecher
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eugene Teo [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
>
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:45 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Mercator
>
> I notice some of you have used Mercator before. My office uses Mercator for
> our
> customers but found that it runs too slowly. This is particularly true when
> the
> database is huge.
>
> One reason for this, IMHO, is because Mercator loads the whole database
> into
> their own temporary files before starting the mapping process. This is
> one of
> the few reasons I found.
>
> Anybody shares this same sentiment?
>
> -Eugene
>
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