Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **

In article <47jb5d$qj_at_news.infi.net> gtravis_at_richmond.infi.net (Glenn Travis) writes:
>
>>> REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ via First! -- Today, Oracle
>>>Corp. announced a record-breaking TPC-C open systems benchmark, 9414 tpmC,
>>>surpassing the existing performance record, also held by the Oracle7
 database.
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>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I attended the Sybase's SYSTEM 11 rollout thing this Monday in NYC. I'll
>>say about 400-600 people showed out. Some _very_ impressive TPC-C benchmarks
>>numbers were mentioned for HP, SUN, and DEC boxes. But due to my normally
>>bad memory, I cannot give any real numbers(so please don't flame me for my
>>bad memory).
>>
>>They had a Sun SparcCenter-2000 with 20 cpus on the stage running some
>>app. (I think the app was a real-world app. from one of the beta test
>>customers). They started out with 4 cpus and gradually ramped up to 20
>>cpus, the server scaled beatifully utilizing all 20 cpus evenly(unless
>>they tweaked the perf. monitor:-) ).
>>
>
>--
>Does that mean they can corrupt a database that much faster???
>
>System XI still has a chapter in the manuals on corruption and what you have
>to run every night to prevent it (DBCC). I have yet to see this chapter
>disappear from Sybase or appear in any other vendor's dba guides...
>

I'm still waiting for the utility to uncorrupt exp files.

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Received on Mon Nov 13 1995 - 00:00:00 CET