But...

If you look at what Santa does, Oracle would seem the better answer.

According to the legend, he see's all and knows all... 

Seems like an Oracle to me.

We had several issues with extremely slow queries and high CPU utilization.  We did several PSSDIAG dumps for MS, and they saw no issues.  After some time and questions from...

According to Microsoft Premiere SQL support, you do need both.  We recently went thru all of this at a very large install.  These were Microsoft guys from Redmond who came...

If you do not have W2k Enterprise and sql is set to utilize more than 2GB of memory, the SQL server will create a page file of anything over 2GB. ...

Much easier way is to run sp_mstablespace tablename.

This will return number of rows, size, index size, etc...