Zawodny on MySQL: Dumber is Faster with Large Data Sets (and Disk Seeks)

[nickb]

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010523.html

[newt0311]

Just wondering, how much of that is due to the query optimizer in MySQL and how much is due to the inherent nature of SQL? It would be interesting to try this on other RDBMSs like postgres and oracle to see what their results are like.