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

From: Jim Kennedy <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:36:52 -0800
Message-ID: <bYGdnQgj9saNa63fRVn-og@comcast.com>

"JEDIDIAH" <jedi_at_nomad.mishnet> wrote in message news:42307ce6$1_2_at_127.0.0.1...
> On 2005-03-04, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
> > Gert van der Kooij wrote:
> >
> >> In article <6q7f21prtalrm2ukrte4jsm5fdjsk1so92_at_4ax.com>, Sybrand
> >> Bakker (postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl) says...
> >>
> >>>On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:01:18 +0100, Gert van der Kooij
> >>><gert_at_invalid.nl> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>You're mixing up things. As Serge and others always said the
> >>>>Unix/Linux/Windows codebase is the same, only the lowest operating
> >>>>system layer is different. I guess this is the same for Oracle.
> >>>
> >>>No. Oracle comes with it's own Virtual Operating System on board.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Which I guess is almost the same as an operating system layer?
> >> I don't know how this is organized in the DB2 code but logically it
> >> should be the same as Oracle's VOS.
> >>
> >> Kind regards, Gert
> >
> > Always the same. I can take a PL/SQL package written on *NIX and

>

> An interpreted language.

>


> > run it on anything from a mainframe to Windows to a Mac and no code

> > change is required. Export from any one and import into any other.
> > Transport a tablespace from any one and attach it to any other.

>

> Data generated by the application.

>
>

> Of course all three of these should be portable across operating
> systems and architectures. Oracle is in full control of the applications
> generating the input and the applications reading it.

>

> This is far less interesting than Cobol or JPEGs being universal
> formats.

>


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You can choose to have pl/sql compiled by a C compiler. Of course, you have to recompile on each platform if you want it compiled. Jim Received on Thu Mar 10 2005 - 19:36:52 CST