You're under some impression that the QOTD is intended to teach something. I've been...

None of them...

There was a declare. It was at the top...

Finally a straight-forward non-tricky question. Shouldn't have any debates about this one.

GSquared (7/26/2011)

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Most company owners/managers won't get that "English" is actually a set of just barely recognizable languages, not just one. Easiest way to explain it to them is to...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/26/2011)

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That's so dependent on the indexing, the query structure in places, it's hard.

I supposed you could set up the same hardware, same data set returned,...

Eric M Russell (7/26/2011)

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TPC publishes database processing benchmarks for a handful of the big name database vendors running on specific hardware configurations.

http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_results.asp?orderby=dbms

Of course some databases are optimized to perform very...

Revenant (7/26/2011)

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cengland0 (7/26/2011)

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Does anyone have a link to the performance differences for all the different database products out there? I heard a rumor that the MS SQL license agreement...

Does anyone have a link to the performance differences for all the different database products out there? I heard a rumor that the MS SQL license agreement prevents people...

Depends...

OCTom (7/25/2011)

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It was apparent to me that the author wanted to test on precedence. That's the way I took it, anyway. It would have been helpful to have a table...

Exactly what I was thinking. I knew the difference in the...

I used to have job title of DBA/Consultant but since I...

@DBA_ANDY (7/22/2011)

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Rod at work (7/22/2011)

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I used to work for a university (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and we were always considered "public" because a fair portion of our funding *did* come from...

Rod at work (7/22/2011)

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A large part of that is because I work for a university; have for the last 15 years. Universities always pay less than the private sector....