Thanks for taking the time to read this by the way.
We're a small company (less than 220 employees), and we are currently using SQL Server 6.5 - 2000 in our databases. The biggest database has a just over 5 GIGS of data, but it's growing. We are an NT shop, and main systems are written in VB and ASP. We have both client server applications and web browsing systems.
We maybe jumping to Java soon, since we maybe purchasing an application that is written in Java and its back-end is DB2.
The boss wants to know if weather we should go head and convert all of our databases to DB2. I have no work experience with DB2, and all I heard is that it's not as cheap as SQL Server and it takes more times from DBA in setting up and maintaining it.
Any information regarding the pros and cons of this two relational database management system software is appreciated.
Thanks.
We're a small company (less than 220 employees), and we are currently using SQL Server 6.5 - 2000 in our databases. The biggest database has a just over 5 GIGS of data, but it's growing. We are an NT shop, and main systems are written in VB and ASP. We have both client server applications and web browsing systems.
We maybe jumping to Java soon, since we maybe purchasing an application that is written in Java and its back-end is DB2.
The boss wants to know if weather we should go head and convert all of our databases to DB2. I have no work experience with DB2, and all I heard is that it's not as cheap as SQL Server and it takes more times from DBA in setting up and maintaining it.
Any information regarding the pros and cons of this two relational database management system software is appreciated.
Thanks.
