IBM DB2 has a free version too!

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Jan 312006
 

Microsoft released SQL Server 2005 Express, Oracle released Oracle Express Edition (XE) and now IBM is releasing DB2 Express-C for free. IBM knows it has to give us more than the competition, so their free version will use a second processor and there are no disk-usage limits. The only limit is the 4GB memory usage (Microsoft and Oracle will only use 1GByte). Oracle XE is still in beta, so I guess IBM’s move will have to trigger some changes?

You can read more, or download DB2 Express-C here. It is based on Universal DB 8.2.

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Scheduler package

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Jan 312006
 

Oracle 10g has a new feature, the scheduler. It’s the matured version of DBMS_JOBS. What I just found out, is that Oracle XE (I installed beta 2) contains this scheduler as well. I found that a nice surprise. A job scheduler probably would fit in 4GB of userdata, and for smaller to mid-sized installations running the back-end database on one CPU would not be a problem. One could install a multi-processor system so, that Oracle XE runs on one CPU, and the processes started by the scheduler on (one of the) other(s). Developing this job-scheduler (as an alternative front-end to Oracle Enterprise Manager, with more features of course) in JDeveloper 10.1.3 and you have yourselves a platform independent job-scheduler. And scalable to your likings.

Please credit this blogentry if you build such a program (in Help->About) (-;

 Posted by at 00:23