Re: what do I gain?

From: Quinton McCombs <quintonm_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: 1998/02/24
Message-ID: <34F2E98D.506BE9D3@bellsouth.net>#1/1

The more CPUs the better. When one user starts a long query that will max out one processer, database performance take a very big hit. More processors will get around this problem. The same goes for stored procedures which are typically CPU killers.

v tsien wrote:
>
> I can have machine of multiple cpu (e.g. 2 cpu or 4 cpu in one unix
> machine). What else do I gain in addition to parallel query? Does anybody
> know? Any exprerience with a multi-cpu machine?
Received on Tue Feb 24 1998 - 00:00:00 CST