Hi Stephen ---

>I'm looking for an unbiased white paper (read not from Oracle or MS) regarding performance between Oracle and SQL-Server. Anyone know of a good document to look at?
>

I dunno where to find that.....maybe the Gartner Group or...?

>Would like anyone's opinions regarding the two for;
>performance

Oracle edges out SQL Server in that respect up until now. I suspect SQL7.0 beats out Oracle at this point but I have no hard data. What is the scale of your application?

>maintainability

SQL Server is much easier to maintain and will be *far* easier with 7.0

>setup

They're both pains in the a**

>upsizing

From VFP? SQL Server

>etc
>

Depends greatly on the scale of the application. If you're looking at something to be run on NT at the top end, SQL Server 7.0 is your best choise and it's due out RSN. If you're going to be in a heterogenous enterprise environment Oracle is probably th best bet.