Never fails, Microshaft never invents anything useful, but steals it from someone else. Maybe Uncle Larry ought to sue Uncle Bill for stealing? What's good for SAP is better for MicroShaft. ........................................................................ ............................................................. Kanbay <http://www.kanbay.com/> Richard J. Goulet, Senior Oracle DBA 45 Bartlett ST | Marlborough, MA 01752 USA Tel: 508.573.1978 | Fax: 508.229.2019 | Cell: 508.742.5795 rgoulet@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rgoulet@xxxxxxxxxx> ........................................................................ ............................................................. ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 6:05 PM To: john.kanagaraj@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l; Anjo Kolk Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Micro$oft SQL Server learns from Oracle (a little!) On 4/3/07, John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi all, At last, SQL Server incorporates "Wait events" in SQL Server 2005. The article was written by someone in MS who works as an Oracle Performance Engineer on MS platforms. He makes reference to YAPP and credits the Oracle community for taking this up. (Anjo - you should have patented YAPP...) The link is at: This is by Oak Table member Mario Broodbakker. His day job is still Oracle, but the SQL server stuff he does for fun. ( He doesn't work for MS) He even wrote his own wait interface for SQL Server. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist