Re: Does anyone read the e-mails from [mailto:db2@news.db2mag.com]

dcruncher4@aim.com wrote: > InDeep says... > >> What might not be readily apparent about Oracle shops is that they all >> pretty much are resigned to "Oracle is the way it is and so we must deal with >> it on its terms". > > true. > >> I recently attended a sales pitch on 3rd-party replication for Oracle. Oracle >> has Streams, its replication 'method', which is very limited in how you can use >> it > > was the 3rd party tool Shareplex from Quest software. > ding ding! :-) yes >> and what your options are. I'm a bit surprised that IBM hasn't done more to >> show off what you can do with Informix. In fact my client found the 3rd-party >> product very attractive, and was even willing to put their database options on >> the table in order to save money and move to another database, even Postgres >> and MySQL came up. MySQL even has better replication options than Oracle. I >> mentioned Informix, but there was a noticeable silence, and the conversation >> moved on to other options, more than likely they will go with the 3rd-party >> replication. > > > Oracle's streams replication is very primitive. > Amazing that Oracle customers have not insisted on a better built-in solution. But it's perhaps due to the nature of the beast, the customer is too busy managing the other 90000 priorities of a typical Oracle project, planning out how the DBAs can copy yet another instance instead of using more modern clustering. But it's ok the billable makes up for the pain. :-)