Re: lies damn lies and benchmarks

"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3CD2ABDE.FD778431_at_exesolutions.com...
> Pablo Sanchez wrote:
>
> > "Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> > news:3CD193F3.4E2C8B91_at_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.
> > > > --
> > > I would or they wouldn't have had to dredge up 8.0.4.
> >
> > Ya know, I should have known better, this has all the markings of
a
> > 'database war' I'll let that old dog lie.
> > --
> > Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
> > mailto:pablo_at_hpdbe.com
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>
> But of course. Same thing as a posting that asks which is better ...
> Swordfish or Marlin.

Not really the same but again, better (for me at least) not to go down that path. It really is pointless.

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