>Erik:
>
>>>I am still trying to understand the validity of this chart.
>
>> What do you mean? TPC is _the_ benchmarking authority for large-scale
>> databases.
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>I believe the SQL Server - Compaq test was invalidated at a later date.
>I will try to find the reference.
>

At least one of the major result sets has been withdrawn in the last year. Withdrawn test are removed from the results and shown elsewhere on the site.

However, even without the SQL/Compaq leader, the NetFinity/SQL results more than double the throughput of the best Oracle results, and for 75% of the cost.

Don't get me wrong, I won't go out on a limb and say that SQL is better than Oracle, only saying that the evidence I have seen points to that fact. But I probably hang out in the wrong types of places to see evidence to the contrary. :-)