M981113 Microsoft Releases SQL Server 7.0 </head> <body background='../images/bkg24.gif' bgcolor=#FFF6FF><hr size=5 noshade> <h2><img src='../images/win06.gif' align=left hspace=20> Microsoft Releases SQL Server 7.0</h2> <font size=+1>Much improved, but Microsoft's ambitions to be an enterprise database leader are held back by the fact that SQL Server runs only on Windows NT.</font> <br clear=left><br> <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=10> <tr valign=top> <td bgcolor=#D9E5F9><center> <strong> <a href='../index.html#top'><img src="../images/b03home.gif" alt="Home" border=0></a><br>Home<p> <a href='../news/nznews.html'><img src="../images/b03news.gif" alt="News" border=0></a><br>News<p> <a href='../topics/topics.html'><img src="../images/b03top.gif" alt="Topic" border=0></a><br>Topics<p> <a href='../aaxsrv.html'><img src='../images/b03aax.gif' alt="AAx" border=0></a><br>AAx<p> </strong> </td><td> Microsoft, with the release of its SQL Server v7.0, maintains it plays with the big boys now, with a fully enterprise scale database. 7.0 provides much better performance and many high end features lacking in its predecessors. Recent tests by a consulting firm show SQL Server 7.0 is now about the same speed as Oracle 8 on the same machine (but Informix was faster than either). <p>Oracle's chief Larry Ellison responded by offering a cool $1,000,000.00 to anyone who could demonstrate a particular standard SQL query at better than 1/100th as fast as Oracle's best published speed. 1/100th as fast? How can that be when they run about the same speed on the same machine? Well, SQL Server runs only on Windows NT, while Oracle 8 runs on real enterprise class computers (as well as on NT and Linux). </table> <p>©:<cite>Andrew Grygus</cite> - Automation Access - www.aaxnet.com - aax2aaxnet.com<br><font size=-2> All linked pages are copyright © the original creator.<br> <style>  </style> <a href="http://www.vel.net" target="_blank" class="toplink">Velocity Networks:</a> <a href="http://www.vel.net/network-consulting-service.cfm" target="_blank" class="toplink">Network Consulting Service</a> - <a href="http://www.clubnet.net" target="_blank" class="toplink">Internet Service Provider</a> - <a href="http://www.vel.net/coldfusion-web-development.cfm" target="_blank" class="toplink">Web Page Design and Hosting</a> <br> All trademarks and trade names are recognized as property of their owners </font><hr size=5 noshade></body></html>