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Edison study: Oracle extends DBA productivity advances over SQL Server 2000 and 2005
An independent Comparative Management Cost Study from the Edison Group proves Oracle Database 10g offers superior manageability,
resulting in significant advantages and cost savings over Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005. The latest report demonstrates that Oracle's
manageability advantage over SQL Server has increased since the last comparison. In the previous study, Oracle Database
10g Release 1 had a 30% time advantage and 20% complexity differential with Microsoft SQL Server 2000, compared to the 38% time
and 30% complexity differential that Oracle Database 10g Release 2 now holds over SQL Server 2005.
In the side-by-side comparison Oracle Database 10g beats Microsoft SQL Server 2005 because with Oracle:
- Typical DBA functions are 38 percent faster
- Requires 30 percent fewer steps, making it less complex
- Businesses can save up to US $31,664 annually per database administrator (DBA)
With this study, Edison Group shows that DBAs can expect to be more proactive in dealing with emergencies and have more time to address
strategic issues like database architecture requirements, while businesses can expect to reduce their cost of managing enterprise database
systems by using Oracle Database 10g.
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