Time to take SQL Server seriously
eWeek | at | by Mike
With SQL Server hitting Winter's Top 10 biggest OLTP database list for the first time, it's time to drag the oft-maligned DBMS out from the closet and into the data center.
While Microsoft's DBMS has done some slick work recently on TPC benchmarks, it's still the butt of jokes like that to many Oracle pros. And you have to admit, it has deserved snickers on the basis of reliability and security.
With Tuesday's release of Winter Corp.'s surveys of the largest and most heavily used databases, Microsoft for the first time ever can boast that SQL Server on Windows made the Top 10 list for biggest OLTP databases. Verizon Communications weighed in with a 5.3-terabyte SQL Server transaction-processing database, reaching sixth place in size for all environments, the top transaction-processing database on the Windows platform.