Re: SQL Server Yukon

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1067277048.821099_at_yasure...
> You'd be correct. SQL Server has been easy to manage for years.
> Partially one must admit
> if one is honest because those that use it rarely have to meet the level
> of demanding apps
> that one routinely puts on top of Oracle. Just for one example, no one
> would in their wildest
> imagination have tried to host Amazon.com on SQL Server. I just finished
> a project with a
> small telephone company that pushed SQL Server to the point that it
> croaked. We went to
> Oracle and even without tuning handled 10X the throughput.

A UK example but Tescos accounts for 1 in 8GBP of all UK spending and tesco.com beats the hell out of their competitors.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/CaseStudy.asp?CaseStudyID=130 66

It may be that amazon.com requires the power of Oracle but if ( say) walmart.com doesn't and tescos is larger.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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>

> So if you have a half-way decent product but you never really push it

> too hard you can

> always get by without tuning because no one expects very much. Most of

> what I've seen

> done in SQL Server, put into Oracle or DB2 or Informix could also not

> require much DBA

> support because even a badly tuned database/instance would be adequate.

>

> Is Oracle one of the most incompetent marketing organizations on the

> planet for its size?

> Absolutely. When a room full of industry professionals (my students) can

> name a dozen or

> more Microsoft products and still think Oracle is a one product company

> Oracle's marketing

> staff should be reduce to half-pay until they earn the rest of their

> salary. Pricing wise ... its

> going to change. Because if it doesn't Oracle's marketshare will erode.

> That is the law. The

> only way Oracle can continue its current pricing is not to offer more

> candy on the CD. But

> to make people aware of the fact that the candy exists and how to use

> it. Something they

> have failed at time and time again.

>

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> Daniel Morgan

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