Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/15/07 21:51

(jeff80@gmail.com) writes:
> I'm an absolute newbie when it comes to SQL. I was told that SQL
> server does not function well on a WAN where network latency between,
> say, the SQL server and a front-end server is greater than 250ms.
>
> I can't find anything information supporting this claim online, so I
> was hoping someone here could tell me if this is true or not?

Of course, it helps if client and server are on a fast connection.
But it also depends on a lot of the application and how it is designed.
An application which does not retrieve huge amounts of data, and which
is well-written and not perform a lot of network roundtrips can perform
decently over a slower connection as well.

So there is no definitive answer to the question.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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