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Dusan Bolek <pagesflames_at_usa.net> wrote:
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>Maybe that kind of behaviour is ethically wrong, but oftenly used. I
>do not think that is even possible to cheat in TPC benchmark, but in
>non-database area we've seen a lot of cheating in benchmarking
>recently.
What do you count as "cheating"? If you read TPC-C reports in detail you can find plenty of slightly dubious practices. Certainly you won't find any large Oracle TPC-C reports that don't use underscore parameters in the init.ora, and there are some that get used that are distinctly iffy.
-- Andrew Mobbs - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~andrewm/Received on Thu May 09 2002 - 05:36:31 CDT