Re: Larry Ellison comments on Microsoft's benchmark

In comp.databases.sybase William Dutton <william.dutton_at_fmr.com> wrote: > Actually, the Oracle database engine is pretty efficient. I am a longtime Syabse user and I now am on > the side of Oracle. Much better stability.

Yes, I agree with you. Oracle is stable. However, Sybase is fast especially for update operations. Do you have any idea of efficiency of Oracle's Index Organized Table? How does it compare with Sybase's Clustered Index?

> Anthony Mandic wrote:  

>> Norris wrote:
>>
>> > In oracle, in case of data/index corruption, you can use Export/Import to resolve the optimization
>> > and defragmentation.
>>
>> Export/Import to resolve optimization and defragmentation. You've got to be
>> kidding me!
>>
>> > Usually, you do it less frequent than DBCC because Oracle performs the
>> > database consistency check automatically for every update.
>>
>> For every update? That's got to slow things way down!
>>
>> -am

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