Re: MS SQL Server 6.0, TPC-B world record performance

In article <3t5jf3$plu_at_oslo-nntp.eunet.no>, olavt_at_microsoft.com (Olav Tollefsen) writes:
>AT&T Global Information Solutions Announces Industry's Best
>Price/Performance TPC-B Benchmark Result
>
>AT&T Globalyst(tm) S40 PC Server and Microsoft SQL Server 6.0 combine for
>new world's record
>
>The TPC BenchmarkB, developed in 1992 by the Transaction Processing
>Performance Council (TPC), is considered to be a leading workload benchmark
>test for evaluating real-world application performance.
 ...
>--
>- Olav Tollefsen
>- Microsoft Norway
>-

TPC-B "a leading workload benchmark for evaluating real-world performance"?

Surely you jest.

This must explain why TPC council has announced that no new TPC-B benchmark results can be published as of July, and all of TPC-B results that have been published (including this one) become obsolete and unreferencable by the end of the year.

Clearly TPC council (owner of this benchmark) knows more about what is "real-world performance" than the author of the referenced press release.

> The TPC-B benchmark simulates the activities found in complex OLTP
> environments

Well, perhaps TPC-B is a "complex OLTP" environment for Microsoft SQL Server customers. Most other database vendors (Sybase, Informix, DB2, Tandem ...) have been duking it out using a more complex (and, dare I say realistic?) TPC-C benchmark.

-- 
Gene Kligerman 
DB2 Planning, IBM Software Solutions Toronto Lab
genie_at_vnet.ibm.com