Sara, Can you please post your Query and results... Cause I am seeing the EXACT Opposite...as I posted earlier.
Oracle Query is what? Select firstName from Customers where firstName like 'Sar%'; The above takes about 7-9 Times More Time to get any results on Our UV QUAD PROCESSOR MACHINE. Please post your PICK/BASIC Statement. Also you might want to dump the data in a separate table... other than something you use for other things. Thanks, Joe Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Sara Burns > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 4:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing > > I am probably in the best position to compare apples with apples. > I have both UniVerse and Oracle on the same IBM p660 4 processor box with > 6Gb RAM. The 800,000 customers are replicated from UniVerse to Oracle, > although the Oracle version is only a subset of the attributes required by > a > different application. > > Both have an index on the first line of the Postal Address. > > My query was to show all customers with the first line of the Postal > address > like %EXPLORATION > > Results:- > UniVerse 9 seconds > Oracle 25 seconds > > Sara Burns > > > Sara Burns (SEB) > Development Team Leader > > Public Trust > Phone: +64 (04) 474-3841 (DDI) > > Mobile: 027 457 5974 > < <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Information contained in this communication is confidential. If you are > not > the intended recipient the information should not be used, disclosed, > copied > or commercialised. The information is not necessarily the views nor the > official communication of Public Trust. No guarantee or representation is > made that the communication is free of errors, virus or interference. > > > -- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users