Re: DB2 UDB or Oracle (who has better support)

"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> It is. No matter how many times IBM denies it.
> They can't even figure out how to spawn a subprocess
> in Windows using the standard Posix calls. That's why
> their interactive command tool needs that deranged
> environment variable thing to get it to talk to the
> "front-end process of the backend", or whatever
> the deranged thing is called nowadays.
> Fact is: the code IS different and BEHAVES different.
> Nuff said.
>

There are some differences in the interaction with the operating systems. But the original statement was that going from DB2 for UNIX to DB2 for Windows was like going from DB2 for UNIX to Sybase. That is completely incorrect if your are a DBA or a programmer. There is almost no difference from a DBA perspective between using DB2 for UNIX and DB2 for Windows, other than operating system specifics.

You analysis of the how DB2 spawns subprocesses is irrelevant to 99% of DBA's and is not related to operational tasks of a DBA.

There are some major differences (from a DBA perspective) between DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and the other DB2's (AS/400, z/OS, VM), but at the DML level they are fairly close. Received on Thu Mar 03 2005 - 03:55:55 CST