On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:02:23PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Lior Kesos, from the post of Tue, 13 Jul: > > I've just read a slashdot story concerning the amazing benchmarks the > > New Zeland stock exchange recieved when comparing the run of Oracle on > > Windows to Oracle on linux. > > it's really fun what you can do with statistics... > > > They claim to cut a query taking 36 seconds down to 0.03 seconds by > > the switch to linux. > > but the other details are too tedious for a short newspaper article.
I've heard one or two similar stories from Oracle users. One explanation I've heard is that the drivers Oracle uses on Windows are sub-optimal (and the conspiracy version of that rumor claims that this is because MS does not like Oracle to compete with MS SQL Server) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
