Re: Windows NT reliable DB server platform ?

In article <D4x0rF.q7_at_fritz.snafu.de> ernst_at_fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker) wrote:

> Is the performance o.k.?

This quoted from "Microsoft SQL Server Market Bulletin, January 1995":

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In benchmark results announced this month by Digital Equipment Corporation, the Microsoft® SQL Server relational database management system running on Digital RISC-based AlphaServers has set new database industry price/ performance records on sin-gle and multiprocessor hardware systems.

In the independently audited tests, Microsoft SQL Server delivered unprecedented performance of 308.8 transactions per second (tpsB) at a cost of $423 per transaction ($tpsB) in a dual proces-sor AlphaServer 2100 4/275 configuration, and 174.2 transactions per second at a cost of $413 per transaction in a single processor AlphaServer 1000 4/200 configuration.

These results represent one of the highest transaction rates yet reached on dual processor hardware systems, and the lowest cost per transaction ever achieved in the TPC-B benchmark tests. The test results highlight the scalability and openness of the Microsoft SQL Server platform, which is available on a wide variety of sin-gle and multiprocessor Intel and RISC-based hardware systems.
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Olav Tollefsen
Digital Equipment Corporation, Norway
266 MHz Alpha + Windows NT 3.5 = RAW SPEEED!!!