Re: Databases and Instances

From: Stefan Jahnke <q5665841_at_bonsai.fernuni-hagen.de>
Date: 2000/04/02
Message-ID: <38E7587E.9BED0309@bonsai.fernuni-hagen.de>#1/1

Nuno Souto wrote:
>
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:24:08 +0200, Stefan Jahnke
> <q5665841_at_bonsai.fernuni-hagen.de> wrote:
>
> >Of course, you encounter the same problem when you
> >have 2 or more databases within one DB2 instance.
>
> I thought that was one of the strong points in DB2. They can have
> better control over this in mainframes than ORACLE in UNIX or NT.
> With UNIX and smaller boxes, I dunno if it's possible to do without
> major code changes to the database engine itself.
>

I was only relating to DB2/UDB for UNIX/NT and DB2/400 for OS/400. Things are different for DB2 for host environments but I really know too little about it to make any statements here.

Thanks anyway for the helpful replies.
Stefan Received on Sun Apr 02 2000 - 00:00:00 CST