Re: >Oracle's future

ken_at_us.oracle.com (Ken C. Stewart) writes: Greetings.

Please quote at least one independent third party which concurs with this general statement. Speaking of a flat earth, why is it that the TPPC people have given Brand O a deadline to prove the merit of the discrete transaction? Would Brand O care to publish TPC-C results? Would Brand O care to publish audited TPC-A results if the discrete transaction code could be disabled?

Come on, get of the grass, in time this issue will fade, but trying to defend the indefensible is pure folly. Mr Oracle has a lot more interesting things to talk about and maybe even something worth listening to, but this topic is poison for your credibility and your ethics.

Regards

Adam Green

>verma_at_eclipse.torolab.ibm.com (Surendra K. Verma) writes:
>>I'm making the statement on the basis of the "widely known" fact that
>>discrete transactions buy about 30% on TPC-A. You can do the calculations.
 

>Unfortunately, at one time, it was also "widely known" that the Earth
>was flat, the travelling at faster than 30mph would result in
>asphyxiation, and that a job with IBM was a job for life. I understand
>that discrete transactions made maybe 5% difference on the TPC-As.
 

>Oracle ran and published a large number of TPC-A figures because they
>knew they could get better figures by a wide margin in most cases. A
>benchmark as expensive to run as TPC-A is only generally worthwhile
>when you know your figures will dominate the results tables. Oracle7's
>superior performance is due to a large number of factors, such as
>shared SQL, fast commit/group commit and many others including, but
>certainly neither limited to, nor dominated by, discrete transactions.
 

>>Surendra
>>verma_at_torolab2.torolab.ibm.com
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