Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Interbase 6.X vs Firebird on Server 2003
Author Rohit Gupta
Paul,

we saw a factor of 6 improvement for really busy tasks such as reporting
at more than one site.


Paul Reeves wrote:

>On Monday 12 January 2004 11:04, Rohit Gupta wrote:
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>>2. 2003 classifies IOB/FB as an app even when it runs as a service.
>>If you configure the server to optimise for applications, you will see
>>an enormous boost.
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>Yeah, but I couldn't reproduce that. Admittedly I only did a very simple
>test - a select from a table with 100k rows. But the performance results
>were similar across Win2k, NT4, Win2K3 and XP. All O/S were VMWare
>sessions on the same hardware with the same memory allocated.
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>I'm not saying you're wrong, or that you didn't see an improvement but I'd
>like to nail this one down with a concrete, reproducible test case.
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>Paul
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