RE: 'Theoretical' SQL question

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   6. RE: 'Theoretical' SQL question (Hall, Philip)
>
>> > 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.
>> 
>> Was it a fair apples to apples comparison?
>> 
>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?

Whoa! Cool! That means you applied for the million-dollar payout from Oracle, 
right? How'd they fix it so it eventually outperformed SQL Server?

Tom Liotta

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