> e-Week article by Timothy Dyck (Timothy who?)

:-)

> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1159805,00.asp

> Graphical administration tools are available but simple in scope and not
> competitive with the comprehensive configuration, control, monitoring and
> tuning features found in the large commercial offerings.

I especially like this part ... Because Oracle has a gazillion tuning
options
(and yes, I've counted them), it means it simply MUST be better.

>Management costs
> are higher among these database products as a result."

Yeah, all Firebird configuration options are much much harder to setup
than Oracles.... *g*

What a Dyck.


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird & MS SQL Server.
Upscene Productions
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