Xref: alice comp.databases:43403 comp.databases.oracle.misc:54248 comp.databases.oracle.server:86135 comp.databases.sybase:63402 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.netfront.net!adenine.netfront.net!jcheong From: Norris Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.sybase,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records! Date: 4 Mar 2000 02:25:28 GMT Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Lines: 29 Message-ID: <89ps6o$kpe$1@adenine.netfront.net> References: <38ace385$1$8288@readdo01.news> <38B8BCE6.E45FD33E@qnet.com> <89et1e$1fn$1@web1.cup.hp.com> <89n6fq$1hb0$1@adenine.netfront.net> <38bf91c0.4418315@news-server> X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 952136728 21294 202.81.252.1 (4 Mar 2000 02:25:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Mar 2000 02:25:28 GMT User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.2-RELEASE (i386)) Both SQL Server and the NT platform have significantly increased their OLTP scalability and concurrency capabilities. Yes, they finally are able to use the shared-nothing RDBMS architecture for NT clusters and improve support for VLDBs and 24x365 operations. http://www.gartner.com/webletter/informix/article1/article1.html In comp.databases.sybase Nuno Souto wrote: > On 3 Mar 2000 02:02:34 GMT, Norris wrote: >>called distributed partitioned views. This configuration let Microsoft >>physically distribute slices of a single table across multiple servers >>but logically access the table as an integrated whole. Microsoft calls >>this configuration a "federated database," a precursor to the 100 >>percent shared-nothing cluster architecture plans for Yukon (the > Shewt! They finally are able to do what I was doing in ORACLE since > V6. Amazing. That's progress! I'm stunned. > Of course, they had to rename it into "federated database" when > everybody else calls it a distributed view. Makes it sound like a new > technology. And all the idiots out there will go "Wow!"... > Cheers > Nuno Souto > nsouto@nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam > http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html -- http://www.cooper.com.hk