Re: DB2 DOUBLES THE PERFORMANCE OF ORACLE 10G

Daniel Morgan <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1077517100.49591@yasure>... > Database Guy wrote: > > > Daniel Morgan <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1077374551.329037@yasure>... > > > >>But I do have one question ... you seem to be implying that with > >>DB2 (non mainframe) you can now put all of your database storage > >>onto a single piece of hardware, a SAN, and share it with all > >>nodes. If that is true you have gone from shared nothing to > >>shared everything. When did that happen? > > > > > > This has been practiced for years, and Serge has pointed out to you > > before the increased blurring of shared nothing versus massive SMP > > approaches. > > Sorry but that is not true. My question was rhetorical as I was > trying to be kind and give a chance to correct the misdirection. Apologies, I was thinking in particular of this post: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=buv5c2%24elk%241%40hanover.torolab.ibm.com In which Serge mistypes: > Interestingly thsi means that the lines beween "shared disk" and "shared > nothing" contiously blur You replied 2 posts later and did quote Serge's text, therefore I assumed you had read the post. DG