Interesting, I went to the web page and clicked on the link
"Putting database performance to the test" and got the following message
Could not Connect to DB:
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]SQL Server does not
exist or access denied.
Oh well, maybe they were mad because they lost!
John
sorr_at_rightnow.com wrote:
>At first glance it looks like they could have done more to tune Oracle.
>Certain tables could have been cached (or buffer pools could have been
>used). They're only using a 4K db block so it would have been nice to see
>tests with 8K and 16K db blocks. Sort area size may need tuning. I'd like to
>see some tkprof on the queries and see what the most expensive queries are
>in terms of CPU, I/O, and number of executions. It would be nice to see
>database results on Linux... It would be cool to see what some focused
>tuning efforts could do but who has time for that?
>
>Anyone have any other tuning suggestions for eWeek?
>
>Time for the tuning DBA guru's to shine. :-)
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:53 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek titled
>"Database Clash"?
>
>The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL rocked
>the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server). So I investigated.
>I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
>Download our configuration and tuning scripts".
>
>According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS and
>processes in init.ora is 150. So then how did they test for 1000
>"concurrent Web clients"?
>
>Anyone have a thought?
>
>
>Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
>Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA
>
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