Matthias Hoys wrote:
> sense.
>
>>You apparently never tried to install MS SQL Server on Linux or Unix :-)
>>Also SQL Server (as shipped today) cannot scale either up or out.
>>I don't mean CPU, I mean big tables (storing LOBs is not what constitutes
>>a big table).
>>By all means I'm obviously not the one pushing Oracle, but there sure is a
>>difference ....
>>
>>Cheers
>>Serge
>>--
>>Serge Rielau
>>DB2 SQL Compiler Development
>>IBM Toronto Lab
>
>
> I have to disagree about the scale-out limits of SQL Server - check out
> distributed partitioned views, and MS clustering services.
Can't comment on clustering services, but distributed partitioned views
I know. They are a highly instable, impossible to manage, non
transparent way of scaling out. They were good enough to get away with
in TPC-C and that's about where it ends.
Cheers
Serge
--
Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Fri Sep 23 2005 - 12:08:13 CDT
