[geeks] Access rant

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Sat Dec 20 03:25:08 CST 2003


On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Mike Hebel wrote:

>   Oracle was able to pass the "hammer" test (0) and almost _never_ went
> down.  The MS SQL went down if we even breathed at it.  And that was
> with all the patches and upgrades and buttloads of RAM.

Hmm... Which version is this?  I haven't used MS SQL since version 7,
and it was a good product back then.

> (0) Take and write a small app that generates random "where" searches
> in SQL for all the tables in the databases.  Make sure that will run on
> all the platforms in your business.  Run it on every machine at once.

Oooooooh.  I like!

-- 
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Elgin, TX         (   Nature isn't a suit."            --Dave McGuire



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