Re: Adjusting to DB2

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:55:18 -0600, Mark A interested us by writing:

>
> Here are the manuals in PDF format:
> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/support/manualsv8.html
>
> DB2 comes with GUI tools like the enterprise manager called the Control
> Center. The Command Editor is the closest to the SQL*Plus but many people
> just use the OS command line or DB2 Command Processor to run DB2 commands
> from the OS shell. The GUI's and all other clients are free.
>
> There is a doc which explains the difference between the versions, but I
> don't have a link. If you post your question on the DB2 newsgroup, I am sure
> someone will provide that document.

Thanks. This will give me some bedtime reading for a day or 16.

So far my conclusion is that, other than having several additional editions over Oracle, the extra price option set seems quite similar.

Which, on first glance, means it really comes down to the basic internals - security, locking and partitioning being the most obvious - to highlight the differences in development, therefore tuning and DBA.

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