Last week, Microsoft announced its latest TPC-H benchmark score, which was quite impressive. Microsoft's latest score--posted on May 21, 2007--was 60,359 queries per hour (QphH) @3t with a Price/QphH of $32.60 compared with Oracle's best score--posted on May 14, 2007--of 37,813 QphH @3t with a Price/QphH of $38.00. Almost double the performance for a lower cost per query? Sign me up!

A few years ago, many people questioned Microsoft's ability to handle enterprise-class performance needs. Today, I find that most people, even Microsoft naysayers, are willing to accept that Windows and

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