How do you fancy a 51% performance increase in SPS 2003?

Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:23:00 GMT

Sounds too good to be true does'nt it?

Microsoft have just released some test results that compare the performance of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 on SQL 2000 vs. SQL 2005.

Using SQL 2005 improves performance on every type of SharePoint farm configuration, but the most notable is a 51% increase in RPS (Requests Per Second) for a medium server farm under SQL 2005. The full table is:

Farm Type	SQL 2000 RPS	SQL 2005 RPS	Increase
Small	75	97	+29%
Medium	131	198	+51%
Large	1015	1114	+10%
Extra Large	1638	1932	+18%

You can get to the full test here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA100993571033.aspx

A Marvellous Point : Performance

How do you fancy a 51% performance increase in SPS 2003?