Posted by Tony Rogerson on 04/12/06 09:07

Arrrrr. the lab and tester that has a massive and tunneled bias towards
oracle and is so anti windows that he's bricked up all the windows in his
appartment.

I'm not suprised, based on past evidence that you cannot repro anything that
SQL Server on the windows platform is better at!

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"DA Morgan" <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote in message
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> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Hugo Kornelis wrote:
>>> - Oracle is more efficient. You have to spend less on hardware to get
>>> the same performance.
>>
>> I'd put a question mark here - at least for the general way you put it.
>> It always depends on what you do with the tool. SQL Server's network
>> protocol seems to be more efficient as it allows faster round trip. This
>> can make a difference in applications that touch the DB frequently
>> accessing only small data sets.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> robert
>
> Actually I've tested this myth in my lab and, so far have never been
> able to duplicate it, given a decently tuned system. Do you have any
> benchmarks that support it?
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