On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:59, Dustin Sallings wrote: > On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 09:55 US/Pacific, Al Hulaton wrote: [snip] > We're looking at various databases for production use in our product > and pricing the various solutions. My personal preference is postgres, > but we're also looking at Oracle and Sybase at this point. One thing > we get from them that we do not get from postgres is a support > contract. It's the general political CYA thing. If something breaks > and we can't figure out what it is, we need someone who can come in and > make it better. > > What we do not need at this point is any type of implementation > assistance. We pretty much know what we're doing, but management > always likes to assume the people whose salaries they pay aren't > capable of doing their jobs. :)
I *like* the fact that my company has a support contract with Oracle on our production databases. DBMSs are extremely complicated beasts, and even though I am expert, and can extract the db from most stack dump conditions, there *are* errors that are beyond my knowledge, but can be quickly solved by someone who lives and breathes Rdb internals. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "Man, I'm pretty. Hoo Hah!" | | Johnny Bravo | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
