Neil Rieck

OpenVMS Programmer/Developer (Itanium2) at Bell Canada
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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User Activity

Over 8 years ago

Answered a question: Do general purpose or OLTP Oracle databases really perform better on SPARC based servers?

Many companies are replacing SPARC (32-bit) and UltraSPARC (64-bit) hardware with x86-64 thinking they can just emulate the older stuff. But this usually fails. That's when the young kids learn that the older SUN architecture was doing something quite different (eg. Solaris…

Projects

Almost 9 years ago

Moving to MariaDB in an OpenVMS Environment

We had been using an ISAM technology called RMS (records management services) for 20+ years so had been looking for a cost-effective way to move to a relational database since 2006. I first experimented with "Oracle-RDB for OpenVMS" which seemed very promising but budget…

Experience

Other Skills

OpenVMS, VMS on VAX, OpenVMS on Alpha, OpenVMS on Itanium. CentOS-7

Answers

Over 8 years ago

Relational Databases Tools

Do general purpose or OLTP Oracle databases really perform better on SPARC based servers?

About me

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry. Skilled in OpenVMS application development (on Alpha and Itanium2) and MariaDB-10 on CentOS-7. Strong engineering professional with a Technologist focused in Electronics from Conestoga College.

Employers

Bell Canada

Education

Conestoga College
Eastwood Collegiate
Forest Heights Collegiate Institute

Interesting Projects and Accomplishments

Almost 9 years ago

Moving to MariaDB in an OpenVMS Environment