Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

From: Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam>
Date: 2000/03/03
Message-ID: <38bf91c0.4418315@news-server>#1/1

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 Received on Fri Mar 03 2000 - 00:00:00 CST