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>>>NASA DB is 700TB and is powered by SQLServer2000
>>>Bank of NewYork hase 5000 users of SQLServer
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>>>HTH
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>>Really? Didn't know that...
>>My brother, that lives in Paris, has a very peculiar job: he is kind of a "deal closer" for Oracle. What he does specifically is build multi-TB databases and benchmark complex queries/heavy load. He proves that SQL Server breaks ( he calls it a toy btw ), shows that db2 is too slow to be usable in those cases and that Oracle shines, which gets them the deal ( that's multi-million dollars deals generally ). I know for instance that lately, all banks in Turkey are moving from SQL Server to Oracle. Same goes about France Telecom...
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>Well that just proves that he's a good salesman. Businesses take decisions on $$, that doesn't always mean that what x chooses is better than what y chose. It just means it's better for them $$-wise.

He's not a salesman at all. He just happens to enjoy playing with Multi-TB Linux Clusters with Oracle on them, beating in the way any other DB at that range :-)