Report Casts Doubt on SQL Server 2005 Scalability

SQL Server 2005 will likely be a dud at delivering high-performance computing, according to a new report from Forrester Research Inc.

This major upgrade of Microsoft Corp.'s enterprise relational DBMS is due in the summer. Summer being only a few months away, it's "surprising" that no TPC-C results have yet been published, according to Noel Yuhanna, author of the report, titled "SQL Server 2005 Likely to Fall Short in High-End Performance Delivery."

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