Webcast - Fastest Informix DBA Contest 2012 - How did they do it?

Advanced DataTools is pleased to announce the results of our latest Fastest Informix DBA Contest, held at the 2012 IIUG Informix Conference, April 22-25, 2012 in San Diego, California. Congratulations to Andrew Ford, the Grand Prize Winner of the new Apple iPad and the Fastest Overall Informix DBA. Please join Andrew, Lester Knutsen, and Art Kagel at 2:00pm EST on Tuesday, June 19th, for a Webcast to share with other Informix users how the winners achieved their results. Learn about the tips and tricks the Fastest Informix DBAs used to achieve their remarkable performance. Andrew's results were almost three times faster than the next closest contestant's results. This year the contest was run on an Apple Mac Mini Server, using Informix Enterprise 11.70.FC4. The server is very small and inexpensive, 1.4 inches by 7.7 inches square. The CPU is an Intel Core i7 with 4 cores, and includes 8GB of RAM, and it has two disk drives, one for the application and one for the database. It is amazing to see 1,000 user sessions running on this little box and to achieve the level of throughput that Andrew accomplished. The goal of the contest was to see who could optimize an Informix database server running 1,000 OLTP users in under one hour, and generate the most transactions per minute. Andrew generated over 57,000 transactions per minute. We used the Open Source BenchmarkSQL Java program to generate the transactions for this contest. The BenchmarkSQL is a JDBC benchmark that closely resembles the TPC-C standard for OLTP. It is a Java program that generates 1,000 sessions doing inserts, updates, and deletes against the Informix database server. For more information on the contest and to register for the webcast visit- http://www.advancedatatools.com/Informix/index.html -- ______________________________________________________________________ Lester Knutsen lester@advancedatatools.com Advanced DataTools Corporation Voice: 703-256-0267 x102 Visit our Web page: http://www.advancedatatools.com ______________________________________________________________________