Oracle Database 10g beats Microsoft SQL Server 2000

Progressive Strategies, a technology analysis firm for competitive product and market Intelligence, developed an autonomous laboratory to test Oracle Database 10g and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for ease of management. Following a series of thorough evaluations, Progressive Strategies determined that enterprises using Oracle Database 10g in place of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 can achieve the following results:
•30 percent reduction in time needed to perform typical administrative tasks
•20 percent decrease in complexity as measured by the number of steps needed for the same set of standard database management tasks
•Approximate annual savings of up to $32,600 per DBA (from increased administrator productivity)

"With Oracle Database 10g, Oracle raised the bar for RDBMS manageability, setting a new standard for ease of use against which all competing products will soon be measured," said the CTO, Progressive Strategies.

Oracle Database 10g's advanced self-management capabilities automate complex manual tasks such as performance diagnostics, application tuning and memory management. The main areas that differentiated Oracle Database 10g from Microsoft SQL Server 2000 were performance diagnostics and tuning, and backup and recovery management.

In the performance diagnostics and tuning tests, evaluators realized a 76 percent decrease in time and a 38 percent decrease in steps over Microsoft SQL Server 2000. With Oracle Database 10g's significant enhancements for backup and recovery, a critical solution for today's enterprise, evaluators needed 50 percent less time and 56 percent fewer steps for general backup and recovery tasks.

"This product was built with the idea of making it as self-managing as possible," said Tarek Shahawy, Technology Manager - Oracle Middle East. "We knew the pain points that DBAs were facing and focused on creating proactive diagnostic and automation solutions that would result in real savings — from increased DBA productivity to overall systems reliability."