Re: DB2/400 comparisons with other relational databases (specifically Oracle and SQL Server)

Being a Developer, I love woking on IBM platforms due to their
consistency over the years ! Though Microsoft has got adorable GUI's, I
didn't find the databases upto the mark, either disk eating Access or
critical handling SQL server ! (the Informix tieup might make it better
in future !). Anyway is DB2s are high performence datases with
excellent features like page level locking, unlike Oracle !

just my 2 cents !
Ravi


--- Douglas Handy <dhandy1@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Dave,
>
> >That is Paul Conte who wrote the db2/400 book and also Mike Otey.I
> have
> >followed
> >these two and I "think" and am pretty sure that they prefer SQL
> Server .
>
> I think you have your books mixed up.  The only book on DB2/400 per
> se which I'm
> aware of that Paul worked on was "Database Design and Programming for
> DB2/400",
> written by Paul Conte alone and published in 1997 by Duke Press.  At
> the time,
> V3R6 was current.  (ISBN 1-882419-06-5)
>
> Later Paul Conte and Mike Cravitz co-authored "SQL/400 Developer's
> Guide", also
> published by 29th Street Press (formerly Duke Press).  This book is
> based on
> V4R5 features, and came out October 1, 2000. (ISBN 1-882419-07-7)
>
> You seem to be thinking of either "SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide",
> written by
> Paul Conte and Mike Otey and published by Osborne McGraw-Hill on
> October 1, 1998
> (ISBN 0-075525-48-2) or the update "SQL Server 2000 Developer's
> Guide" which
> came out December 1, 2000 (ISBN 0-072125-69-1).
>
> I suspect you read (or saw) one of the books on SQL Server, but not
> the one
> nearly simultaneously updated on SQL/400, and jumped to the
> conclusion Paul must
> prefer SQL Server.
>
> Still more recent are these quotes from Paul, published April 2001 in
> an online
> article on iseriesnetwork and titled "V5 Makes iSeries More
> Competitive in
> Database Arena".  The article can be viewed at
>
http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/artarchive/index.cfm?fuseactionÝòewarticle&CO_ContentIDÝ9987
>
> Here are two quotes from the article:
>
>   "V5 continues to improve how DB2 UDB for iSeries stacks up against
> other
> databases within IBM’s DB2 family and against Oracle, Microsoft SQL
> Server, and
> other relational database management systems."
>
>   "From this point on, there’s little that should hamper the
> iSeries in
> competing strongly against the other leading database platforms."
>
> Neither of these quotes specifically mentions what is his preference
> or why, and
> I don't want to put words in Paul's mouth.  I just trying to set the
> record
> straight that Paul and Mike Otey did not co-author a book on DB2/400.
>
> Doug
>
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