o****i 发帖数: 5 | 1 had some experience with both DB2 and Oracle,
will post some comparison soon.
Personal feeling:
Oracle's style is like M$ Windoz.
DB2's style is like VMS (if not UNIX).
one is more business-oriented, and one is more research-oriented. | c****n 发帖数: 47 | 2
Agree. No wonder DB2 came out of IBM's labs.
【在 o****i 的大作中提到】 : had some experience with both DB2 and Oracle, : will post some comparison soon. : Personal feeling: : Oracle's style is like M$ Windoz. : DB2's style is like VMS (if not UNIX). : one is more business-oriented, and one is more research-oriented.
| x********o 发帖数: 31 | 3 i used oracle in UNIX system, no feeling about the windows style.
not sure why you think it is like Windows.
【在 c****n 的大作中提到】 : : Agree. No wonder DB2 came out of IBM's labs.
| o**o 发帖数: 21 | 4
It is just an analogy.
Like what Lenin said: "every simile is awry". :)
In the commercial database world, Oracle's behavior is much
like M$.
* They are trying to develop everything upon their own efforts.
They are trying to cover all aspects of database, just as
M$ is trying to cover all aspects of all and all.
* They don't follow standard at all---their SQL looks weird.
On the contrary, DB2 follows SQL92 standard.
However, I think the PL part of PL/SQL is very very good,
but not the
【在 x********o 的大作中提到】 : i used oracle in UNIX system, no feeling about the windows style. : not sure why you think it is like Windows.
| B*****n 发帖数: 135 | 5
Basically Oracle is pushing Internet-oriented db solution, with
tight integration with Java and XML... since Intenet is everything
in everywhere these days, it does seem that Oracle is trying to
cover a lot of grounds :)
actually SQL92 *is* a subset of Oracle SQL... Oracle is also
committed to SQl1999 (SQL3) in its future releases.
Again, *Solutions* mean not just servers; they must include
applications as well.
well the big difference is that Oracle does not crash... and
considering how many u
【在 o**o 的大作中提到】 : : It is just an analogy. : Like what Lenin said: "every simile is awry". :) : In the commercial database world, Oracle's behavior is much : like M$. : * They are trying to develop everything upon their own efforts. : They are trying to cover all aspects of database, just as : M$ is trying to cover all aspects of all and all. : * They don't follow standard at all---their SQL looks weird. : On the contrary, DB2 follows SQL92 standard.
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