Re: Oracle Benchmark Results for Different Hardware Configurations?

Serge Rielau wrote:
> Further, car manufacturers certainly tune there vehicles to get the
> safety rating they aspire to rather than decreasing the de-facto injury
> rates (which would be the real application).

But it is also what they sell. No RDBMS vendor can claim that what I buy from their salesperson is exactly what was tested. A claim that sleazy car salesman can make with a straight face.

You want to use the car analogy as it is practiced in software and hardware benchmarking try this:

Take a stock Toyota and replace all windows with 1" bullet proof Lexan. Replace the tires with solid rubber. Weld in crashbars protecting the occupants. Beef up the fuel tank with armour plating. Replace the bumpers with those used on police cruisers. Then submit for safety tests.

Surely you aren't going to try to claim that if I decide to put JD Edwards on top of DB2 I am going to get the same team from IBM tuning my installation as IBM sent to get their marketing number.

The difference here, I suspect, is that you are an employee of IBM and would lose your job if you acknowledged that amount of gaming that takes place to get the best possible benchmark numbers. I work for a university and, due to academic freedom of speech, can say whatever I wish. I don't see that this difference gives us much of an option of finding a place of agreement.

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Daniel Morgan
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group