[ Thanks to Ronny
Ko for this link. ]
“One sure sign that IBM is serious about Linux showed up on my
doorstep. A thirteen pound package containing CDs and manuals for
DB2. Not just for one OS, but for Linux (x86 only), OS/2, AIX,
Solaris, and Windows NT….”
“DB2 offers a basic set of datatypes with no major omissions,
and a few unusual ones thrown on top. Programmers familiar with
other databases will have no trouble adjusting to DB2’s selection.
Fixed and variable length strings are available, as well as a few
numeric types, BLOBs (fields that can store unstructured
information that can be several megabytes in size) are fully
supported. DB2 allows for subtyping, which is the creation of a new
datatype which mimics another datatype in terms of storage size,
but can have its behavior customized through the use of CHECK
constraints, which can restrict the type of values which make it
into the field….”
“DB2 trys hard to be a do-everything database. It does not,
however, insist on being the only database in town. There is a
surprising amount of support for interaction with other
databases.“
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