Sun Microsystems threw more chips into its "billion-dollar bet on the LAMP stack" with the recent launch of its MySQL Enterprise Fall 2008 release. The newest version of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based ...

What exactly does 1 unit of cost represent in SQL Query Analyzer execution plans? [ie: Subtree Cost: 41.2134] Obviously it is some form of measurement since a very simple "select @@version" is like ...