Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

As a famous author in the U.K. said :-

"There's lies, damned lies and statistics."

TPC is all well and good, but does it take into account systematic shortcomings of the producst which happen periodically (but certainly probably not during an intensive test).

Another thing TPC calcs don't take into account is vendor-technology-churn risk. I.e. is Microsoft still going to be actually selling and supporting the products and OS versions used here in 3 yrs time? If there's any doubt, then the cost to upgrade has to be taken as a total cost of ownership hence total cost of transaction performance.

I don't need statistics to guide me towards good products, I prefer first hand recommendations.

David P.

Norris wrote:
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> To see MS innovations and how SQL Server 2000 achieved world record TPC-C performance and price/performance results:
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> http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib.idc?theURL=/library/backgrnd/html/megasrvs.htm
>
> In comp.databases.sybase Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam> wrote:
> > On 9 Mar 2000 02:00:23 GMT, Norris <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk> wrote:
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> >>>> > Everything any culture on the planet has today is
> >>>> > ALL built on somebody else's work.
>
> > Don't have the slightest problem with this. That's what makes progress
> > work.
>
> > PROVIDED we are talking about "building on".
>
> > Badge-engineering and term re-invention like MS does all the time
> > is what I'm against. This is not the same as "building on somebody
> > else's work". This is crap, desguised as marketing.
>
> > Many years ago, it was the norm to use tar and feathers for what MS
> > marketing does. Nowadays, the stock market hikes up the share price
> > when MS re-names something instead of "building on something"...
>
> > Cheers
> > Nuno Souto
> > nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam
> > http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html
>
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Received on Mon Mar 13 2000 - 19:13:39 CST