[H-GEN] Databases

[Joel Michael]

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David Jericho wrote:

> Oracle support is mind blowing. I once had an Oracle engineer call me back
> right away after my mobile battery fell off. He was in the UK. And he babied
> me through some obscure Oracle runtime problem, and was incredibly friendly
> about the whole thing. And the documentation sets are pretty darn fine as
> well.

I have also had some very good success with Informix support.  But, I 
suppose that the support has to be good, as commercial database systems 
are extremely complex beasts.  It is fairly easy IMHO to get overwhelmed 
with all the documentation that's available, as Informix has a couple of 
1k+ page manuals in PDF format, and a few more 100+ page manuals 
describing various specific things, like the text search engine.

> The only major disadvantage of Oracle is you do need ram, and lots of it.
> 512MB is the minimum I'd dare place it on. 
> 

wow!  This makes Informix look EXTREMELY light!  Our live server almost 
always sits well below 200mb, with as many as 55 active simultaneous 
connections.

One thing we have found quite helpful is getting an Informix 
professional to do some optimising of our setup.  It absolutely flies 
now, and we thought it was fast before.

-- 
Joel Michael

(opinions are my own, not my employer's)


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