Re: As the markets tank... Some Benchmark Stuff to distract you

Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > DA Morgan wrote: >> Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> >> >>> Every single piece of Oracle software has a direct counterpart in >>> open source too. >>> >> >> That it total nonsense and if you don't know that you need to find >> another profession. You will not find open source counterparts to >> almost all of Oracle's features more recent than version 8i which >> is now more than a decade old. >> >> Show me the open source counterpart to RAC? >> Or Flashback Query? >> Or Transaction Backout? >> Or Flashback Archive? >> Or Real Application Testing? >> Or Data Vault and AuditVault? >> Or array processing (FORALL SAVE EXCEPTIONS)? >> Or AWR and ASH and the metric collections? >> Or almost all partitioning types? >> Heck open source can't even match the table and index types alone. >> > > Really, Daniel, I'm surprised at you. Including implementation-specific > features as things that other products should offer. Not the sort of > reasoning I'd expect from an impartial academic powerhouse. The ability to back out a transaction committed in error is an implementation specific feature? The ability to write hundreds of thousands of insert statements per second is an implementation specific feature? Well perhaps so if you live in a world where every table is a heap table, there is only one type of index, and no one is supporting your product with applications. But that is not true of the marketplace in which Oracle and SQL Server are competing. Have you seriously looked at the comparison of these two docs? http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.sqls.doc/sqls199.htm and http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28286/statements_5011.htm#SQLRF01209 Your use of the phrase "implementation-specific" might be considered by an "impartial academic" as reflecting the fact that you are working in a product that has not progressed significantly in more than a decade or that perhaps your knowledge of the industry has not: Who can say. <g> -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)