Rita: Greetings to you and welcome. You made your point the first time you opted to respond to the list. I have the same views as yours but I choose to adapt to an information-mode while participating in such forums. Because these inputs are very valuable as it comes directly from users and sellers. This is very different from being seated on the other side of a sales call. There is no harm when technology providers present their views as they feel. As long as the group treats them as important information in the process of being well informed. Best Regards, -Shan. -----Original Message----- From: Rita Parrott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Mercator 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 ------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------ Homepage = http://www.XMLedi-Group.org <http://www.XMLedi-Group.org> Unsubscribe = send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm <http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm> ------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------ Homepage = http://www.XMLedi-Group.org Unsubscribe = send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm ------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------ Homepage = http://www.XMLedi-Group.org Unsubscribe = send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm ------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------ Homepage = http://www.XMLedi-Group.org Unsubscribe = send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm
