Re: Data Warehousing Tools - To Bundle Or Not to Bundle?

Douglas J. Rener wrote in message <3530adc1.477341@news.erols.com>... > >btw- from what I've seen of SQL 7.0 in terms of speed/performance, it >blows all the peer products away and gives Oracle a run for it's >money. > Just an FYI: The highest TPC-C benchmark utilizing WindowNT 4.0 Enterprise and SQLServer 6.5 was 18,000 transactions per minute on an 8-processor Data General box. The highest TPC-C benchmark on a more normally configured 4-processor Intel-based box using NT4.0 Enterprise and SQLServer 6.5 was around 12,000 tpm. By contrast, the highest TPC-C benchmark for any relational database on any platform was 51,000 tpm done by a Sun box running SPARC Solaris and Oracle8. Looks like SQLServer on NT has quite a ways to go compared to Oracle (and Informix and Sybase, for that matter). You should look at this info for yourself at www.tpc.org. (Support your opinions with facts, should I say?) Regards, Dave