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"Teppicamon" <quicog_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Not at all, believe me... We wrote one application using SQLServer that made
> some quite complex queries on a materialized view resulting of joining five
> tables, one of them of about 50 million rows (guess the size of the view,
> then ;-) ). Results come to the web application users (with the network and
> asp interpretation overhead) in less than two seconds...
I'd hate to think how long it would take Oracle if Billy had counted these using a MV... ;)
> I must confess that
> I'm quite happy with Oracle also, but I really think that in general you're
> really misleaded about what SQL Server can and cannot do with similar
> hardware... or even with slightly worse hardware...
>
Narh. We just normally compare apples with apples.
>
> Nah, don't think so... He's quite happy with what he's got. If not, he would
> just buy Oracle and rename it as Oracle.NET ;-)
Yup! :D
> some backups or creating logins... They just write good SQL and voilà!! Good
If only....
> never let them try an SQL Server environment. You'd have to learn SQL Server
> administration (well, at least that's quite simple and you wouldn't have
> anything to do most of the time) or lose your job ;-)
Oh yeah, I know:
1- Shutdown 2- Backup 3- Shutdown 4- Restore 5- Startup
PS: Mostly, I agree with you. ;)
-- Cheers Nuno Souto wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospamReceived on Fri Jun 27 2003 - 05:52:33 CDT