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I've had a little DB2 experience and it's a solid DB. It has all the features you could ever want and *awesome* support. I've never used it with Perl, though so I'd be interested to know how well the DBI covers it. Of course, it goes without saying that I'm talking about DB2/UDB - which is the open system version. DB2 for OS/390 is by far the gold standard. Not even one open systems DB can touch its solid performance and reliability standards. But it's like Ferris says, "If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up." 

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Re: Re: Re: What databases are monks using?
by 2501 (Pilgrim) on Dec 18, 2000 at 06:51 UTC
    I think DB2 was the first DB I used with perl. DBI, perl and DB2 so far has been my favorite. I have found that DB2 was much more "forgiving" in terms of dealing with a slow programmer then anything else I have encountered since then.
    I used it on a OS/400 system. The queries I was doing were intense. The data was spread between 2 tables and millions (literally) of records. I used quite a few multi tier queries (a query which subqueries, which subqueries, etc.) and it handled it like a champ. My only problem being determining the difference between DB performance and what was just raw hardware horsepower from the AS/400 I was using.
    either way...perl, DBI, and DB2 was a pleasure to work with.
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