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"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> Can I ask what the point of this bit of anti-MS bashing is? The audience
> in this group presumably has already bought into the Oracle model, so it
> seems to be rather a waste of time.
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> As it happens, if you are a Windows shop, I think you would seriously want
> to question any proposal to install anything other than SQL Server. The
> Windows architecture plays merry havoc with Oracle performance, but suits
> SQl Server rather nicely.
Howard, I use Win2K w/9202 for lots of small data marts and it blasts along - no OLTP and mostly read-only stuff - but the performance throats are where I want them - in the disk or in the cpu doing hash joins...
Please no flame war on this - all I'm saying is with my config I've no complaints Received on Mon Mar 10 2003 - 04:49:46 CST