Hello Thomas, > - Ease of Administration > > Is there a general rule that says MaxDB is easy to > administrate or MaxDB > needs an full-time DBA employee?
This depends on the size and needed availability of the database, it is generally easy to administrate, but aside from easyness there are regular tasks that may grow with database size, such as executing/managing backups etc. which can be done with no downtime of the database but take some work-time for the administrator. If something goes wrong and needs immediate reaction a full-time DBA may be more 'accessible' than a hour-based student :-) So possibly the answer is that a DBA has possibly a lot of spare time all the day when MaxDB is used, but if something goes wrong you know why y > How easy it is to administrate MaxDB in an Enterprise > environment, e.g. > by supporting SNMP, ... There is no builtin SNMP support in MaxDB itself. > - Profiling > I've read in the Online documentation that MaxDB comes with a set of > profiling tools. What tools are the most valueable ones > regarding what's going on in a MaxDB database. There is the Database Analyzer tool which is documented in the main MaxDB documentation. > - Security/Authentication > > What type of authentication does MaxDB support? Is this something > proprietary or is there support for Kerberos, ...? Something propietary. There's no support for system/custom/pluggable/whatever authentication methods. > Is there some kind of data encryption available, to protect sensible > data that goes over the wire? Upcoming 7.6. release has SSL but currently not in the open source version. > For a remote connection. Is the user/client password > transmitted to the > server in a human-readable way? No. Regards Alexander Schr�der SAP DB, SAP Labs Berlin -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
