Re: Database market share 2004

You reckon? Paul said: > > > DA Morgan <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote: > > >>There is another important reason too: Instrumentation. If they are >>slow diagnosing why is a question of making guesses. That may be a >>reasonable approach when supporting a small non-commercial web site. >>It is a non-starter when talking terabytes and a requirement for 7x24. >>And then there's that little problem with government requirements >>around audits. They just aren't ready for prime-time. > > > I have worked for a company (big player in its field) and had an > interview with another (a giant in its field) where they had systems > that ran on all of the major db's - SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and > Sybase. > > These db's contain(ed) neither triggers, SPs, PL/SQL, Transact SQL or > any other proprietary features of any of these db's. The only coding > that varied between the db's was how to get an > autoinc/generator/sequence value and that was in some sort of middle > layer. They did make use of DRI in the db creation scripts. > > > I'm not saying that that's a good thing (in fact I'm appalled), but > the fact of the matter is that many companies pay for expensive db's > when in fact they are little more than bitbuckets. I think that it's > only a matter of time before the IT industry is going to wake up to > the reality that (at least as far as *_I_* have seen) very little of > the capacity of an Oracle or DB2 is actually being used and make the > switch to cheaper or Open Source db's. > > Hence my .sig - I am trying to learn Oracle because that's where the > jobs are, being DBA to underutilised db's... surfing here I come... > 8-) > > > > Paul... > > > -- > > plinehan __at__ yahoo __dot__ __com__ > > XP Pro, SP 2, > > Oracle, 9.2.0.1.0 (Enterprise Ed.) > Interbase 6.0.2.0; > > When asking database related questions, please give other posters > some clues, like operating system, version of db being used and DDL. > The exact text and/or number of error messages is useful (!= "it didn't > work!"). > Thanks. > > Furthermore, As a courtesy to those who spend > time analysing and attempting to help, please > do not top post. > -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche A smile is a gift that is free to the giver and precious to the recipient. But giving someone the finger is free too, and I find it more personal and sincere. sending to informix-list