DB2

[Jim Herrmann]

Bill,
I would contact Rich Kaminski at IBM and request a demo.  Tell him Jim 
Herrmann sent you.  (Hi Rich!)  I think Todd Reichmuth has DB2 Extended 
Enterprise Edition installed on Linux on his laptop.  I would also recommend 
that you and the purchasing manager come to the June DB2 User Group meeting, 
and see what kind of DB2 community we have here in the KC area.

Millions of rows are not a problem with DB2.  The most important thing is to 
have them indexed properly, based on how you access the data.  There are tons 
of other tuning issues, but there is no substitute for proper data base 
design.

Good Luck,
Jim Herrmann
IBM Certified DB2 UDB DBA
President, Heart of America DB2 Users Group
:-)

On Thursday 04 April 2002 11:09 am, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
> I know we have some DB2 peps on the list, I'm trying to get my company
> to switch from M$ $ql $erver to DB2 on linux.
>
> If anyone would be willing to do a demo of DB2 for my company, main area
> needing info is on how to handle large db/tables and query them
> quickly.  We have some tables with millions of rows, and need to keep
> retrieval down in the low secs.  Sql Server can do this, but not very
> many query's at the same time.
>
> Email or phone me if interested.
>
> -Bill
>
>
> Bill Cavalieri
> bcavalieri at gekl.net
> VP IT Systems
> 816 880 0066