true as that may be, lately it has been outclassed by all serious competitors. bragging rights are always a part of this set of applications and the fact that the figures have not been released does not hold good. i personally think that the fact that longhorn will not be shipping with the new file system has something to do with it. SQL is so tightly integrated with the OS that when things go wrong with the OS they have bad effects on the DB. As the article says only 8 companies out of 2000 use it for >1TB of info, that in itself tells its own story.
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>Huh? Slow? SQL Server held the TPC benchmark record for a loooooooooooong time.
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>>although i think that SQL server will never be as good as sybase et all i have always had it in my mind that its slowness in comparison to others has as much to do with added features in SQL server that are wasteful for most users as running on the windows OS as opposed to a refined unix/linux box.
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