Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **

In Article<4781ti$6h2@murrow.corp.sgi.com>, <pablo@ppp-mew.corp.sgi.com> write: > In article <enduser-3110951702080001@204.247.5.19>, enduser@enduser.com writes: > > performance is the least reason to choose oracle over sypbase, > > ingres, informix. even if sybase and oracle were the same, oracle > > is superior in so many ways that it defies description. > > Would you attempt to defy and please tell us why Oracle is so > superior? I don't know Oracle, but my gut feeling is that probably > both engines are industrial strength and that if you looked at an > item by item comparison, we'd find one tool better than the other but > overall they are probably equivalent. > > So convince me (with some facts) why Oracle "is superior in so many > ways..."?? > > > consider the mass of client tools, media tools, internet tools, and the > > presence of "row level locking". > > > > (heck sybase was so far behind the power curve they overpaid for > > powerbuilder by a factor of > > 3x, a billion if i remember, and still they are way behind). > > ----------------- > > What you list above doesn't tell me that Oracle is superior. You can > argue row-level locking if you like but that sounds more of a > religious war... Doesn't the Online DS SQL Create Table command include a "lock mode row" clause? The manual indicates it is so...