Posted by DA Morgan on 04/16/06 20:47
Tony Rogerson wrote:
>> No. When and where did I say "Desktop"? You said it I didn't.
>
> XP is a desktop OS, Windows Server editions are optimised for IO and
> throughput and as such give better throughput than XP for applications like
> SQL Server. There are also other considerations like, one important one is
> disk cache - is it turned on / off, this will have a massive impact on
> write operations.
I have a copy of 2003. I'll rerun the comparison this summer during the
break.
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