Re: [stellation-res] Database abstraction

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 14 August 2002 08:56 am, Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 07:55:15PM +0000, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> > The first time that I tried to install DB2, it took me three full days
> > of work. There was a curses based configuration UI, which collected
> > up a ridiculous number of configuration options, did no validation
> > whatsoever to make sure that the options were entered correctly,
> > wrote the options into a file in /tmp, and then ran a bunch of
> > "rpm -i"'s, which contained scripts that read the configuration file. If
> > any of the options were wrong, the rpm's would fail, and the install
> > script would generate no useful diagnostics whatsoever. It was, by
> > far, the single worst installation process I've ever seen.
>
> OK, maybe it was Oracle. Or maybe it was DB/2 for Windows. It is been a
> couple of years since I've tried it and I remember being frustrated with
> the Control Center more than with the install ;(.

Ah, yes. The control center. I never got to see that actually run :-)

The first time I tried to install DB2, it shipped with a version of the JDBC
libraries that only worked with JDK 1.2 or greater; but the control center
only ran under JDK 1.1.8. 

	-Mark

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