This is a comparison between the latest offering of SQL Server and the latest offering of Oracle.

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The study is the baseline checklist of standard database administration tasks routinely performed, which are quantitatively and qualitatively compared in order to objectively determine, on a task-by-task basis, which product is superior. This is measured primarily in terms of ease of administration and secondarily (for certain tasks only) in terms of system speed of execution — the wall clock time it takes for the system in question to complete a job once it has been submitted by a DBA.
The conclusion from the study is the Oracle 11G is less expensive to maintain than SQL Server 2008.