Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!mtxinu!sybase!calvin!ben From: ben@calvin.sybase.com (ben ullrich) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Do you like your UNIX RDBMS? Message-ID: <4493@sybase.sybase.com> Date: 1 Jun 89 18:21:53 GMT References: <9703@dasys1.UUCP> <3378@fp.sei.cmu.edu> <2907@osiris.UUCP> <427@fdmetd.uucp> Sender: news@sybase.sybase.com Organization: sybase, inc., emeryville, ca Lines: 19 if you have to wait 5 minutes for the 1st row of a 1000 result-row query, you have a fairly rotten dbms. that sounds fairly exceptional to me (and to others, as the case may be). i know my applications using sybase front ends never seem to have to ``wait for all the rows to be found'' before i can see any. i must admit i am not sure if our sql server waits until all rows are located before sending any, but i highly doubt it; it seems like a stupid thing to do. after all, we're in the business of moving rows around quickly, not sitting on them. and even so, sybase is fast enough that it doesn't seem to matter, not in my experience, anyway. ..ben ---- ben ullrich consider my words disclaimed,if you consider them at all sybase, inc., emeryville, ca +1 (415) 596 - 3500 "skinheads are pinheads!" -- greg sullivan ben@sybase.com {pyramid,pacbell,sun,lll-tis}!sybase!ben