Re: lies damn lies and benchmarks

From: Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 19:31:00 GMT
Message-ID: <3CD193F3.4E2C8B91@exesolutions.com>

Pablo Sanchez wrote:

> "Knut Talman" <knut.talman_at_mytoys.de> wrote in message
> news:3CD1480D.9090903_at_mytoys.de...
> > Niall Litchfield wrote:
> >
> > > I see that according to the high performance labs at accupuncture
> (sorry
> > > accenture) that MSSQL outperforms Oracle running SAP R/3. It turns
> out that
> > > this is MSSQL 2000 sp2 compared with Oracle 8.0.4! Does anyone
> know how old
> > > 8.0.4 actually is?
> >
> >
> > It's like comparing apples and pies. Was this study sponsored by
> someone special?
>
> Although given the exact same hardware, I wouldn't be surprised by the
> above result.
> --
> Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
> mailto:pablo_at_hpdbe.com
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I would or they wouldn't have had to dredge up 8.0.4.

If they could have beaten Oracle at 8.0.5 or above they would have.

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu May 02 2002 - 14:31:00 CDT