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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (35287)	12/10/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 74651

Interesting, thanks Dan. how to get Windoze NT and SQL Server to perform reliably with such a huge load. This could be anything, and really screwed us up in the unix oracle world for a long time... every unix variant apparently has a different locking strategy and that talks to the database locks (called "latches" in Oracle)... so theres a lock/latch interface issue and for every unix port the dbms companies have to get some kernel expert from the O/S to develop this with their internals people. Pretty soon the porting group is the biggest R&D dept at the dbms vendors - a colossal waste of time, but whats worse is debugging matters involving ported locks (which come out as performance issues like every other problem on the system so you don't know what you have). Now you would expect that msft has tuned the lock manager for the interface between the dbms and O/S but I wonder. The Oracle 8i database guys say the ms sql/server team is really good - better than the old sybase engine group it initiated from anyway.