Re: ms-sql vs oracle on NT or UNIX?

From: Jeremy Rickard <Jeremy_at_SPAM.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1998/02/20
Message-ID: <Pu0$MNA+bb70EwiV@jbdr.demon.co.uk>#1/1

In article <6cilaa$4e1$1_at_info.curtin.edu.au>, Bob Johnson <send_at_no.junk.mail> writes

>NT and MS SQL Server can scale pretty quickly if you really need it to.

I don't think anyone is arguing that it doesn't scale; rather, that it scales poorly, when compared with other products such as DB2 and Oracle.

According to the study by Bloor Research, MS SQL Server demonstrates "near perfect" read-only processor scaling (to 4 processors).

However they also found dire update processor scaling (so bad that they could not run tests with "a meaningful number of users"), poor user scaling, and less consistency and robustness than competitors.

-- 
Jeremy Rickard

Received on Fri Feb 20 1998 - 00:00:00 CST