I read your article and found it to be interesting and overall, quite accurate.
I do have one bone to pick with you however. I know the MySQL staffer who worked the MySQL portion of the test. I had occasion to meet him and talk briefly about the PC Magazine test in Houston the week following the test. >From my discussions with him, I also believe that the MySQL folks asked if they could use a Linux based platform instead of Win2K and were told no. That's fine in that it makes the comparisons fair for all vendors. Frankly, I was surprised that MySQL did as well as it did under Win2K! My problem is that you then published numbers for MS SQL Server running in a non-standard configuration from the rest of the test! "... As an extra data point, we also rewrote the benchmark in ASP .Net and, due to time constraints, tested just SQL Server on this platform. We stress that the results of this test are not comparable to the Java benchmark results because the ASP .Net test used a different Web server (Internet Information Services 5.0), different application engine (ASP .Net) and different database driver (OLE DB). However, our results do provide evidence that this all-Microsoft software stack can produce excellent performance, peaking at just under 870 pages per second ..." This leads one to believe that SQL Server and an all Microsoft solution is better than the 600 pages per second that MySQL and Oracle were able to serve up. At least that would have been the conclusion that I would have drawn from your article, not knowing the the test environment was supposedly fixed for all competitors. If you want to let SQL Server turn in it's highest numbers by running on a native platorm, that's fine. Just let the rest of the competitors do the same. Yes, I know that everyone would be interested in .Net performance, but I just don't think it should have been presented in a way that appears misleading. Ken Hylton Programmer Analyst IV LEC Systems & Programming Billing Concepts, Inc. 7411 John Smith Drive San Antonio, Texas 78229-4898 (210) 949-7261 <sql, query> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
