Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!DMasterson From: DMasterson@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: ORACLE on the cheap... questions Message-ID: <7339@cup.portal.com> Date: 14 Jul 88 19:47:20 GMT References: <5165@dasys1.UUCP> <8208@ncoast.UUCP> <178@turbo.oracle.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 32 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.2888 In message <2316@rtech.rtech.COM>, davek@rtech.rtech.COM writes: >A Note on Standards >------------------- >[much deleted on "hard-to-follow" benchmark standards] Perhaps its time that the various DBMS vendors used one of the yearly symposiums on DBMSs to sit down and agree on an understandable benchmark that everyone can handle and that has some meaning (you don't have to test everything about a DBMS for the benchmark to have meaning). Perhaps this test could be broken up into subparts (user interface, 4GL processing, SQL integrity vs. ANSI, relational capabilities vs. Codds rules, distributed capabilities vs. Date's rules, performance per query type, thru-put, etc.) >A Note On "The Net" >------------------- >[much deleted on Net and comp.databases etiquette] True. The rule for this area should be "vendor - defend thyself, but don't pick on the other guy"! >David Kellogg > >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >| Relational Technology (INGRES) New York City >| (212) 952-1400 ...!ucbvax!mtxinu!rtech!davek >| >| The above opinions are merely my own and should not be >| construed as any official statement of Relational Technology >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Masterson ^-^ DMasterson@cup.portal.com (@v@) (The opinions above are not \_/ necessarily those of this station) =^=^=