Hi. I would like to compare the performance of MonetDB with the performance of an Oracle DB by using the TPC-H benchmark. I use the MonetDB server v5.14.2 with the MonetDB/SQL module v2.32.2 on a windows xp platform. On the MonetDB website (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/SQL/Benchmark/TPCH/) I read that they used the mclient with the –t argument in order to obtain the timings for the queries. I tried the same but the displayed time for queries which return several 100 rows is very high. For example the TPC-H query nr. 3 with returns 11620 row the time was 13796.174 msec. If I execute the same query in the db visualize it just needs 0.864 sec for the result. I think the problem with the mclient is that it needs a lot of time to display the result of the queries. Is there a better alternative to the –t argument of the mclient to get a useful time result? Thank you for any help Gerrard -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/sql-execution-time-tp27088775p27088775.html Sent from the monetdb-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.