Re: No future for DB2

Posted in 2005

Serge Rielau — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:07:28 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

DA Morgan wrote: > 1. Load the databases on identical hardware and operating systems That one doesn't work. Different systems have different sweetspots for hardware. Make that "same budget". There is nothing wrong with getting the same ffect with different configurations (e.g. trade money saved on log space with memory for a bufferpool). Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 SQL Compiler Development IBM Toronto Lab

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DA Morgan — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:00:48 -0700 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Serge Rielau wrote: > DA Morgan wrote: > >> 1. Load the databases on identical hardware and operating systems > > That one doesn't work. Different systems have different sweetspots for > hardware. Make that "same budget". > There is nothing wrong with getting the same ffect with different > configurations (e.g. trade money saved on log space with memory for a > bufferpool). > > Cheers > Serge "Same budget" has been tried many times and always fails because different companies pay different amounts, sometimes wildly different, for the exact same hardware. What Boeing can buy for $1M is substantially more computing power than what Joe's Bar and Grill can buy for the exact same dollars. But slice it or dice it anyway you wish ... knowing how fast SAP runs benefits far more people than knowing how fast TPC runs. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)