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Microsoft gives SQL Server
a boost
By Mark Hammond, PC Week Online
February 18, 2000 9:51 AM ET
On the heels of its Windows 2000 launch, Microsoft
Corp. has given a scalability boost to a key player in its
enterprise platform, the SQL Server 2000 database.
The database upgrade, due to ship in several months,
adds "shared-nothing" partitioning, so that workloads
can be divided across multiple servers, Microsoft
officials said Thursday.
And with it, Microsoft boasts that SQL Server on
Windows 2000 is outperforming database rival Oracle
Corp. on Unix.
With partitioning, a beta version of SQL Server 2000,
atop Windows 2000 Advanced Server and 12 Compaq
Computer Corp. Proliant servers, achieved 227,079
transactions per minute in a Transaction Processing
Council benchmark, according to Microsoft and data at
www.tpc.org.
The next best number is 135,814 transactions per
minute, from Oracle8i running on AIX.
Oracle: Get real
An Oracle official was dismissive of the TPC results,
noting that SQL Server 2000 is not available. "It's hard
to comment on something that's not real," said Jeremy
Burton, vice president of Internet platform marketing at
Oracle.
Similarly, an analyst cautioned that benchmarks are
often far removed from real world production
environments.
"One has to view it with a jaundiced eye until it's proven
in practice," said Merv Adrian, vice president of
research management at Giga Information Group Inc. in
Santa Clara, Calif.
Microsoft's shared-nothing partitioning has proven faster
than the shared-disk partitioning common to databases,
said Paul Flessner, SQL Server vice president.
"I think it's revolutionary," Flessner said. "We've just
changed the rules of the game."
At the same time, there are indications that Microsoft
won't meet its goal of shipping SQL Server 2000 in the
first half. It's scheduled to release Beta 2 in mid-April.
"Right now we're on track -- it might slip a couple of
weeks," said Barry Goffe, SQL Server product manager,
about general availability.
Microsoft, in Redmond, Wash., is at
www.microsoft.com.
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