Users Express Confidence in SQL Server 2005 Performance

SQL Server 2005 is performing just fine in at least one beta customer's site, contrary to a recent report that expressed doubt as to the upcoming relational DBMS' ability to do high-performance computing.

Jim Holt, vice president of server development for Townsend Analytics Ltd., said that data rates are "extremely high" in the real-time electronic trading company's deployment of the database's Beta 2.

"[We're processing] 50,000 transactions per second," said Holt, in Chicago. "I've seen peaks of 100,000 messages per second."

That's a performance gain of about 20 percent over early, pre-Beta 2 builds of the product, Holt said, measured on high-end but still commodity hardware.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1776221,00.asp

Ok, this seems a little more realistic than yesterday's Forrester Report.

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