Re: Oracle performance with Microsoft Project

"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message news:3f59eca8$0$273$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com...
> >
> > Correction: there is NOTHING you can tune. Don't confuse lack
> > of tuning ability with the lack of need to do it.
>
> Um not really so. SQL can still be tuned, the correct object types and data
> types can still be picked or not by the designers, objects that contend for
> IO can still be separated from each other etc etc.

Nothing to do with tuning the server engine. The above are general application design tuning tasks. We should do those in ANY database and they will benefit ANY database. I was talking about *specific* tuning of the SQL Server engine itself. Not much there that can be done...

> Of course it isn't as rich an environment, but that doesn't mean that it
> can't be well or badly setup, with good or bad design decisions taken. And
> after all most tuning is done in the design phase isn't it - thats what all
> the books tell me <sounds of manic laughter....>
>

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