Re: Performance on NT: Oracle vs. SQLServer?

From: C_MCKINNON <C_MCKINNON_at_colloquium.co.uk>
Date: 1997/03/26
Message-ID: <01bc39c1$0a237ae0$04000001_at_Colin>#1/1


People keep telling me that on comparable hardware, SQL server is faster at finding data, however push them a bit and they seem to think that Oracle is more stable with a large throughput. I hasten to point out that this is what I've *HEARD*.

Colin

doug a blaisdell <dougb_at_world.std.com> wrote in article <E7M0FG.Iyp_at_world.std.com>...
> Hi out there!
>
> We're trying to decide between Oracle and SQL server, for a DSS database
 with
> about 200 Meg of data now, but much larger soon (eg 1 Gig). We've got a
 dual
> processor with 128 Meg (but could increase this), running NT 4.0.
<snip><snip> Received on Wed Mar 26 1997 - 00:00:00 CET

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