Actually, one of our clients is a mega bank, you know, a bank that comes from some European country well known for chocolate, cheese, precision chronographs (or whatever they call watches this week), and banks ... they happen to use our software to handle financial transactions ... the data is in Oracle Database clusters, now, the dbs are actually "quite" large, the SQL Server database that fell over here is nowhere near that size, seriously, not even in the same universe. And the thing puffs along quite happily, not a database performance issue in years, afaik, and, they would knock on my door if anything goes wrong.
There is no way in hell you could run that off SQL Server, they would laugh you out of the building.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
