Re: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, Marketing Departments

David,

    Given that the results have been withdrawn hours before a holiday weekend here in the US, I guess we may have to wait a while before we know the full story.

    Of course, just like Oracle creating a "new solution" to a problem lead to TPC-D being replaced by TPC-R and TPC-H, it might be that although the Microsoft solution is not technically compliant with the TPC-C benchmark, it is nonetheless, a potentially viable "solution" to a customer base. (As a result, I would not dismiss their solution simply because it may have failed to pass muster against a certain set of laboratory requirements)

    It could also be a technicality, due to the fact that the benchmark was probably produced on code that will never be publicly released (SS7.5?). (SS2000 is due for release this summer, but may have had lines of source code changed since February, not including the line that returns the version number! I would imagine that changing a single line of code probably constitutes a violation.). The real question becomes, "What performance will SS2000 actually deliver?"

Don Macpherson

"David Pomphrey - DNP" <High.Flight_at_btinternet.com> wrote in message news:8jlh76$bs8$1_at_plutonium.btinternet.com...
> Two Major MS SQL Server TPC-C benchmarks are withdrawn from the TPC.
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Received on Sun Jul 02 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT