Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

Both SQL Server and the NT platform have significantly increased their OLTP scalability and concurrency capabilities. Yes, they finally are able to use the shared-nothing RDBMS architecture for NT clusters and improve support for VLDBs and 24x365 operations.

http://www.gartner.com/webletter/informix/article1/article1.html

In comp.databases.sybase Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam> wrote:
> On 3 Mar 2000 02:02:34 GMT, Norris <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk> wrote:

>>called distributed partitioned views. This configuration let Microsoft
>>physically distribute slices of a single table across multiple servers
>>but logically access the table as an integrated whole. Microsoft calls
>>this configuration a "federated database," a precursor to the 100
>>percent shared-nothing cluster architecture plans for Yukon (the

> Shewt! They finally are able to do what I was doing in ORACLE since
> V6. Amazing. That's progress! I'm stunned.

> Of course, they had to rename it into "federated database" when
> everybody else calls it a distributed view. Makes it sound like a new
> technology. And all the idiots out there will go "Wow!"...

> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam
> http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html

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