Re[2]: SQL Server vs. Oracle

  • From: Jonathan Gennick <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Niall Litchfield <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 21:10:58 -0400

Wednesday, May 12, 2004, 10:45:29 AM, Niall Litchfield 
(n-litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
NL> <quote> For Microsoft SQL Server 2000, the process of
NL> tuning a poorly performing complex SQL Statement is
NL> mostly manual (index tuning being the only exception);
NL> therefore, given the fact that this task will almost
NL> always take a significant and variable period of time,
NL> we feel that 10+ minutes is a fair, conservative
NL> estimate of how long it would take an expert performance
NL> engineer

10 minutes? Only 10 minutes? Wow. I guess I must be far from
being an expert then, because I don't know that I've ever
solved a real-life SQL performance problem in only 10
minutes. Heck,

Best regards,

Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are
http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx

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