Re: Charts for a lazy DBA

From: J.P. <jp_boileau_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 20 Mar 2002 05:12:13 -0800
Message-ID: <7e388bc3.0203200512.53942ca3_at_posting.google.com>


With MS SQL-Server, just wait 'til you do a "select * from tablename" on a table with 2+ million rows, while users are updating the same table... VERY ugly.

JP

"Not Me" <noone_at_nowhere.com> wrote in message news:<oiMl8.34723$%6.1209793_at_news2.telusplanet.net>...
> 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.

[snip] Received on Wed Mar 20 2002 - 14:12:13 CET

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