I wanted to solicit some opinions on architecture and performance from
you guys.
I am torn right now between these two systems to replace my aging DB server:
4 x 2.2 GHz Opteron
8GB RAM
Ultra320 15kRPM RAID5 with 128MB cache
and
2-way 1.2GHz POWER4+ IBM pSeries 615
8GB RAM
Ultra320 15kRPM RAID5 w
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> Hello Josh,
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> JB> Not that you can't improve the query, just that it might not fix
> JB> the problem.
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> Yes, I'm aware it might be slower than the Linux version, but then, as
> you said, I still can improve the query (as I did with your help now).
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> But true, if there's something awfu