On 6/6/07, Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com> wrote:
> They're blowing smoke if they think Oracle can do this.

Oracle could handle this fine.

> Oracle fell over dead, even with the best indexing possible,
> tuned by the experts, and using partitions keyed to the
> customerID.

I don't think so, whoever tuned this likely didn't know what they were doing.

> It's telling that Oracle's license contract prohibits you from
> publishing comparisons and benchmarks. You have to wonder why.

They did this for the same reason as everyone else. They don't want
non-experts tuning the database incorrectly, writing a benchmark paper
about it, and making the software look bad.

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