Re: Workgroup vs. Enterprise on NT: A Difference?
Date: 1996/05/04
Message-ID: <ADB0EB789668269FA_at_fjp.his.com>#1/1
In article <318A1FE6.3DCB_at_mercury.ptes.com>, "James A. Mumper" <jamumper_at_mercury.ptes.com> wrote:
>> We've been running both Oracle 7.1 Workgroup and Oracle 7.1 Enterprise
>> (sorry, no rev numbers available at this posting) on identical Compaq
>> Proliant machines, both running Windows NT-AS 3.5.1 and have noticed a
>> substantial difference in performance between the two. Oracle has stated
>> that there should be no appreciable difference, since the two products use
>> the same kernel (I agree). So what's causing the difference?
>> snip
>
>Fred,
>
>You don't say in your post which version is faster. Can I assume it's
>the Enterprise version, or should I save a few thousand and get the
>Workgroup variety?
>
I'm sorry, you are quite correct: the Enterprise version consistently
outperforms the Workgroup version in most (but not all) tests (we are using
our own apps [naturally] to test). I had thought that perhaps the
differences might be caused by Oracle's build version or environment, but
wouldn't that be reflected in the version number?
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