There are lies, damn lies, and then there are performance measures, (was: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! ** )

On 7 Nov 1995, Terry Greenlaw wrote: > > Hey, I used to work for Oracle. I know all about "tuning" benchmarks to > produce a customer-requested number ;-} > > > I just can't stomach anyone trying to claim that these numbers are even > remotely related to anything that 99 percent of RDBMS users are trying > to achieve with their systems. > > Terry is right. Futhermore, as Anon et al. once said (something like): Actual performance may vary depending upon driving habits, road conditions and queue lengths -- use these numbers for comparison purposes only. Put more bluntly, there are lies, damn lies, and then there are performance measures. Regards, Akmal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and to do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because there is new knowledge to be gained and new rights to be won, and they must be won for the progress of all mankind ..." - President John F. Kennedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.cs.city.ac.uk/finger/akmal mailto:akmal@sarc.city.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------