Re: No future for DB2

Sebastian, Norma J. wrote: 
Dirk wrote:

A friend of mine had the same problem at her company (she is the
software manager), and eventually phoned me for help, who doesn't know


Oracle.

They couldn't get RMAN to work, and got Oracle in. Oracle couldn't 

get

RMAN to work, and blamed it on Veritas - and Veritas again blamed it

on Oracle ....... 

I hope your friend makes more than me... not sure I would aspire to be
software manager, but title sounds nifty.

RMAN is pretty complex.  It took our experienced Oracle DBA several
months working on/off with our Veritas Netbackup person to get RMAN to
work.  We are just now beginning to roll it out across all our oracle
dbs.

Sounds like your friend needed someone to stand between oracle and
veritas and make the two parties work nicely together to get a solution.
This of course would probably have had to be the "DBA in the middle"....
aren't we always there?....  I've gotten so good at watching fingers
point around.... hey, can I get certified for that?  (not finger
pointing, but being an observer).
Or maybe I'm just certifiable... but we all gotta be something :)

Norma Jean
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sending to informix-list 

I see zero value in any of Veritas' offerings. But then I see zero
value in backing up to tape rather than removable hard disks. I
don't mean to be insulting but I don't think your DBA has modified
his or her thinking in the last 10 years while the technologies
available have changed dramatically.

Take tape out of the picture and what does Veritas do? Same as with
RAC asking how one can justify Veritas when ASM does more and costs
far less (included in the Oracle license).
--
Daniel A. Morgan
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