>>>>> "Ambar" == Ambar Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It Looks that most of the people are ignoring a very important >> that it is Ambar> the amount of I/O with a DBMS is doing. If for the same Ambar> type of repeated operations i.e. adding of UNIQUE records Ambar> to a table with few lakh records is to be done then the Ambar> faster DBMS is the one which will require lesser I/O Ambar> operations. And in my view Oracle is much faster because of Ambar> better disk caching it employs and I hope that this is the Ambar> most important factor. Also don't forget Oracle can use raw disk partitions, which means it avoids the OS filesystem overhead altogether. I think this is true of newer versions of Oracle also. Regards, -- Raju -- Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ It is the mind that moves ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================