Comments on: Fake Cross Join : Is Oracle Really Four Times Better Than MS SQL Server ? http://www.waldar.org/blog/200904/fake-cross-join-is-oracle-really-four-times-better-than-ms-sql-server SQL behind Business Intelligence Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:03:20 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Waldar http://www.waldar.org/blog/200904/fake-cross-join-is-oracle-really-four-times-better-than-ms-sql-server/comment-page-1#comment-7 Waldar Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:16:25 +0000 http://www.waldar.org/blog/?p=36#comment-7 I should edit my post. Both Oracle 11g and SQL Server 2005 run on Windows, but they don't have the same hardware. Thanks for the encouragement ! I should edit my post. Both Oracle 11g and SQL Server 2005 run on Windows, but they don’t have the same hardware.

Thanks for the encouragement !

]]> By: laurentschneider http://www.waldar.org/blog/200904/fake-cross-join-is-oracle-really-four-times-better-than-ms-sql-server/comment-page-1#comment-6 laurentschneider Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:52:25 +0000 http://www.waldar.org/blog/?p=36#comment-6 Oracle is not supposed to be faster on Windows, but if you compare Oracle on a Linux Server with SQL Server on Windows running the same hardware, I would suppose Oracle is faster. The way each db save the segments and do the maths differs a lot. For instance you may get a 100x improvement by using binary_double instead of numbers... Welcome to the authoring community (do not worry about your French accent :) ) Oracle is not supposed to be faster on Windows, but if you compare Oracle on a Linux Server with SQL Server on Windows running the same hardware, I would suppose Oracle is faster.

The way each db save the segments and do the maths differs a lot. For instance you may get a 100x improvement by using binary_double instead of numbers…

Welcome to the authoring community (do not worry about your French accent :) )

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