re : Opinions on OLTP

2001-02-13 Thread MOHAMMAD AMER
hi dba , I went through the same problem here,where I reverse engineered a system with no relations or integrity constraints and it was hell,since I guessed the business rules and asked people from anywhere about the business of this system,I don't want to remember this period of my life. I 'm not

Re: Opinions on OLTP

2001-02-13 Thread Brian Wisniewski
I'm working on a project which is converting from DB2 to Oracle and possibly UDB. All of the current constraints are in the Cobol code and none are database enforced. A version of the data model is stored in Cool:Gen and we need to update this and use it to move all of the constraints from the c

RE: Opinions on OLTP

2001-02-13 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Any system with online 'live' updates as opposed to saving up all the updates and running them through a batch process would be considered an OLTP application. Ron Smith Database Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2

Opinions on OLTP

2001-02-13 Thread Sherrie . Kubis
I am starting a Data Warehouse project, possibly using Oracle Warehouse Builder. One of the databases that I must bring together comes from IBM DB2 database. We have reverse engineered a piece of their database so that we can produce an ER diagram so that we can start understanding their data. A