Re: Adjusting to DB2

Mark A wrote:
> >"Bjarke Wedemeijer" <bjarke_at_wedemeijer.dk> wrote in message
> > >news:1130175944.976195.121260_at_g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >Hi Mark and others,
> >
> >normally i do not respond to such fooliness in these kind of threads
> >but Marks remarks about the instrumentation is not incorrect it is also
> >misleading.
>
> The purpose of this thread was not to compare the merits and features of
> Oracle vs. DB2. The decision has already made that the Oracle shop will have
> to support at least one DB2 application. The issue is how much training is
> required for the Oracle DBA's to do this.
>
> Since the application is already completed it is reasonable to assume that
> it was tuned by the vendor who wrote it. What you call "instrumentation" is
> therefore not really necessary in this case. Since you claim that DB2 for
> LUW does not have instrumentation, I don't understand why it was even
> mentioned, since the Oracle DBA's clearly don't have to learn about
> something in DB2 that does not exist.

Too late. It's a religious war now :-) Flame on!

Your application. What is it? ODBC? JDBC? What platform(s)/ technologies are you dealing with?
FWIW, I'm pretty much a a zero in practical Oracle knowledge. But the answers to those questions may yet yield more light than heat in this thread. I notice that Serge has written one or more articles elsewhere re: migrating to DB2
(e.g. http://www.sswug.org/see/25702).

Also, these links might help:

DB2 Migration Toolkit
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/migration/mtk/

Using DB2 routines to ease migration
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0402greenstein/

Cletus
[Disclaimer: Yes I work for IBM] Received on Mon Oct 24 2005 - 15:26:56 CDT