Re: Comparative between DB2, Informix and Oracle

Michael Krzepkowski wrote: > DA Morgan wrote: > >> Obnoxio The Chav wrote: >> >>> DA Morgan said: >>> >>>> Your question, as stated reads roughly as ... I am thinking about >>>> buying a vehicle with wheels. Should I get a BMW, an 18 wheeler, a >>>> train, or a 747-300. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Or you could buy Oracle, which does absolutely everything. >> >> >> >> And it would be unbreakable. ;-) > > But it does not run from the same code base. > (Just couldn't resist). Actually it does. Thursday of last week we had a workshop at Oracle Day where we took a table partition in Redhat Linux and, using transportable tablespaces, moved it into Windows. Later I moved it to a Macintosh without a single issue. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)