That’s a long time ago. Even in the Price/Performance category, SQL Server is only 4 th behind Oracle 11g. Sybase SQL Anywhere 11 is making a notable 5 th. Has Microsoft been sitting on its hands?

When researching OLTP and transaction-oriented workloads, start with TPC-C for Oracle and IBM DB2 or TPC-E for Microsoft SQL Server. In the next article, we’ll start to drill down into the specifics ...

The 2024 McKnight Consulting Group benchmark compared EDB Postgres AI with Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and MySQL in self-hosted environments.

SQL Server 2000 “doesn’t quite close the gap with Oracle8i and [IBM] DB2, but it’s getting there,” said Teri Palanca, an analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Giga Information Group Inc.

Running on a single Sun Fire E25K server with 72 UltraSPARC IV+ 1.5 GHz processors and Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), Oracle Database 10g Release 2 with Automatic Storage Management achieved ...