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

>> 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. >---------------------- > >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... -------- Glenn Travis DBA (Ingres/Oracle/Sybase) Circuit City Stores, Inc. Richmond, VA USA gtravis@richmond.infi.net gtravis@aol.com