Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

In comp.databases.sybase Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam> wrote:
> On 7 Apr 2000 15:19:37 GMT, Norris <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk> wrote:
 

>>In comp.databases.sybase Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam> wrote:
>>
>>> As I said: get a copy of ORACLE, and check out how MS's claim that row
>>> locking slows down large updates is totally FALSE.  Don't confuse MS's
>>> crap  implementation of row locking with what can be done.  And has
>>> been done in ORACLE.
>>
>>I have tested out the update benchmark in my NT with Oracle, MSSQL, Sybase, DB2 and Informix.  I don't have CA Ingres on NT.  I found that ASE updates table very fast.  I think Adaptive Server uses in-place direct update technique.  I don't know if it is related to locking. 
>>
 

> Again you miss the point, Norris.
> It's NOT the speed, it's WHAT HAPPENS when two, three,etc users update
> and read off the same table at the same time. Same rows, different
> rows, etc,etc. It's really not that hard to setup and test.

Would there be any differences if I use 36 client user machines like TPC-C benchmark done by Compaq?

http://www.tpc.org/new_result/c-result1.idc?id=100021702 Received on Sat Apr 08 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT