Microsoft may be pulling out all the stops for its 64-bit database Thursday, but if you ask Oracle, this is a non-event. In a series of interviews with CRN Tuesday, one executive after another repeated that the company plans no direct response to Microsoft’s 64-bit SQL challenge. Microsoft has positioned that database as proof that SQL Server is ready for the enterprise.
Oracle On 64-Bit SQL Server: We’re Not Impressed
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Duh… milltions of installations around the world have been running 64-bit Oracle (since 8i came out) for a number of years now on 64-bit Solaris and HPUX boxes…
It really is a “big eh” to Oracle…..they should MS a “welcome to the 64-bit club, your 5 years late” greeting card.
It is hard to know just from that article if oracle is just badmouthing MS or if the product really isnt that great, and worth it. Only time (and benchmarks) will tell.
And there was me thinking that the companies that I’ve contracted for that insisted on using SQL Server 2000 were doing so in an Enterprise environment… (though the classic ‘too many cursors’ error does still make me laugh.. especially when we suggested Oracle in the first place to quite a few of them.)
32bits… 64bits… Who cares! If it’s fast, stable and works well?
Does SQL Server 64bits work well??? (and please no more benchmarks… they only tell you how fast things run not if they run well… and btw, enterprise level software isn’t mesured on speed, it’s mesured on reliability and integration capability).
Just my 2 cents…
Why don’t they respond to MS’ challenge? If SQL Server 64bit is so bad as Oracle implies, they surely have nothing to loose, haven’t they?
I think the greater weight should be placed on how well the queries / stored_proc’s are written. I could have the fastest db software in the world and a poorly written sp which will make it look like it’s the worst software in the world.
Until the enterprise includes Windows, you aren’t going to see SQL Server really taken seriously. It might be good for mid-sized databases, but when you get into the multi-terabyte systems it is pretty much Oracle on Unix.
That being said, I have used SQL Server on mid-sized projects and it is a nice suite – especailly the tools.
Has MS added MVCC to SQL Server yet? The last time I used it was SQL Server 7.0 and with hundreds of users running very complex queries that overlap updates would lock up the database. At the time, the problem was that select statements would hold share locks directly on the table row. We moved to Oracle which versions the data and therefore readers don’t block writers and all was well.