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  3. January 2005

RE: 'Theoretical' SQL question

> > Been at a number of accounts where Oracle has been a pig
> > (even with good Oracle DBA's doing all they can) and a
> > SQL Server (out of the box) replacement is faster.
> 
> Phil,
> 
> Was it a fair apples to apples comparison?
> 
> Nathan.
> 

Not in my mind, Oracle was running on a big multi-processor Solaris system with 
a EMC (but it wasn't EMC) kind of data-rack with fibre connect.

SQL Server was running on a 2-way Intel with HT and local disks.

In my mind that stacks it in favour of Oracle, yes?

--phil

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