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>And M$ is a champion of writing products which need excessive tuning, and moreover, the default values are quite often aimed for simplicity and not performance. This goes for WExplorer, IExplorer... and I think this adds the SQL server. I'm waiting for one to be delivered to us soon, and I'm almost sure you'll hear me speaking in lots of four letter words (they line up nicely in a nonproportional font)..


SQL Server 7.0 is self-tuning. I'll just add that Oracle typically requires a fulltime DBA to manage it, SQL Server does not. This tells me that SQL-Server only occassionally needs tuning, while it is an on going battle with Oracle.