Re: lies damn lies and benchmarks

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 15:29:24 -0600
Message-ID: <WciA8.2751$VQ6.559747@news.uswest.net>

"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3CD193F3.4E2C8B91_at_exesolutions.com...
> Pablo Sanchez wrote:
>
> > "Knut Talman" <knut.talman_at_mytoys.de> wrote in message
> > news:3CD1480D.9090903_at_mytoys.de...
> > > Niall Litchfield wrote:
> > >
> > > > I see that according to the high performance labs at
accupuncture
> > (sorry
> > > > accenture) that MSSQL outperforms Oracle running SAP R/3. It
turns
> > out that
> > > > this is MSSQL 2000 sp2 compared with Oracle 8.0.4! Does anyone
> > know how old
> > > > 8.0.4 actually is?
> > >
> > >
> > > It's like comparing apples and pies. Was this study sponsored by
> > someone special?
> >
> > Although given the exact same hardware, I wouldn't be surprised by
the
> > above result.
> > --
> I would or they wouldn't have had to dredge up 8.0.4.

Ya know, I should have known better, this has all the markings of a 'database war' I'll let that old dog lie.

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Received on Thu May 02 2002 - 16:29:24 CDT