RE: MYSQL on AS/400....

"unembed the database part of i5/OS" - this is an absolute horror scenario.
Integrated DB2 is the BEST part of this box.
Think how many System i DBAs you know. Now think how many Oracle, SQL
Server, mySQL DBAs you know. Or search for these jobs on Monster and like.

Do you see a discrepancy there? That's because IBM takes care of you!
Yes, you can take care of table extents, creating clustered indexes,
spreading the data across drives etc. but why would you want to?
Do you not have anything better to do with your time?

Anyway, that would be a step backwards.

Elvis

Celebrating 10-Years of SQL Performance Excellence

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Subject: Re: MYSQL on AS/400....

On 4/26/07, Darrell A Martin <DMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi, Steve:

Outside groups getting control? I think not. Influence, input, yes to both
-- and a good thing, in my opinion. The Linux community is the model for
that effect at IBM. But Big Blue will give up significant control of the
platform only after the keyboard of the last working i/400 is pried from
underneath the cold dead fingers of the last user in the Solar System.

another hopeful side of this is that it is a waste of resources for
IBM to maintain two DB2 products - one for AIX, the other for i5/OS.
If the MySQL people are moving to integrate their database with DB2
then maybe they will push for IBM to unembed the database part of
i5/OS ( so it could be deleted ). If we got rid of i5 hardware and
the integrated database, i5/OS would be a much more viable product.

-Steve