Re: What is FASTER than Inormix ?

On 9 May 98 at 1:16, David Williams wrote: > In article <6iud36$140$1@news.xmission.com>, Billy Wheeler > <billy@west.co.za> writes > > > >On 3 May 98 at 10:53, Joffrey wrote: > > > >> Any ideasa on whats faster than Informix ? > > > >Yes, I drove a BMW 750iL the other day, that was _way_ faster than > >Informix. :-) > > > >Individual applications have specific requirements, the only sane way > >to make a decision is to benchmark. I, for example, saw a genuine > >back-to-back benchmark last week where Informix lost hands down to > >Oracle. I have also done benchmarks where Informix has creamed Oracle > > ??? Surely not Online 7.2x or 7.3? > Properly tuned?? Believe it or not. *And* it was Oracle 7, not even the latest and, er, greatest... -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________