Re: Charts for a lazy DBA

Unfortunately you won't find a corporate-sponsored performance comparison chart. Those are restricted by the EULAs. However...SQL Server 7 has a known bug when doing (at least partial, not sure about full) text searches on fields. Apparently a) it's very very slow, and b) all searches are sequential, so only a limited number of users can do the search at any given time.

You don't specify what the feature is that's very slow, so I don't know if that helps any :) The bug is apparently fixed in SQL Server 2000.

"TBZ" <thiers_at_fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br> wrote in message news:cac4489.0203190712.431c35b2_at_posting.google.com...
> Dear DBAs,
>
> I've had great fun reading some of the recent threads dealing with MS
> x ORACLE, generously sprinkled with comments about to GUI or not-to
> GUI, short-sighted companies and under-prepared DBAs.
>
> I work for one of the so-called short-sighted companies who has
> elected Sql Server as the "Corporate DB Standard", and is now faced
> with a troubled 3rd-party application which performs badly on "the"
> standard and whose developers have stated, "our customers which use
> ORACLE don't seem to have your kind of performance problems" . . .
>
> I've been searching the Net for some kind of performance charts
> between Oracle and Sql Server. Went to ORACLE's site and they seem to
> consider only IBM as a decent competitor, no single mention of MS at
> their site. Sigh . . .
>
> I KNOW that Oracle is a sturdier and better suited product for a
> corporate environment than SQL Server, now I just need some comparison
> charts, independent reviews or user polls to show to management so
> that they can also show it to higher management.
>
> Does anyone have this kind of stuff more or less available (or point
> me to where I can get it)?
>
> Thank you for your assistance. As soon as I can prove to some people
> what they already know (corporate comedy . . .) I'll return to what I
> need to do, which is to plan an upgrade in our DB2 ERP. :))
>
> Thiers
Received on Tue Mar 19 2002 - 20:27:16 CET