Federated Database Servers
At the Windows 2000 launch, Microsoft made a surprise announcement. Using Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000, they had blown away all the time performance based TPC-C benchmarks! Microsoft had always placed in the top spots on the Price/Performance benchmark, which rewards high transactions at a low cost. But Microsoft had not been able to place SQL Server 6.5 or SQL Server 7.0 in the top 10 TPC-C marks, which exclude cost and are based solely on performance. The top 10 lists have been owned by UNIX based systems running Oracle, DB2, or Sybase. However, Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000 changed all that by taking the top two positions at the time of the Windows 2000 launch. SQL Server 2000 has improved on its top marks ...
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