Re: Beginner help needed in database design

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:31:08 -0800
Message-ID: <1107131309.11421@yasure>

Mark A wrote:
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:1107127169.855069_at_yasure...
>

>>In short your anonymous letter writer from Oracle and TCP has an
>>opinion ... it is his ... it is not mine. He is welcome to his and I
>>am welcome to mine. But what is critical is that not once at Boeing,
>>not once at Bank of America, not once at AT&T Wiress (now Cingular),
>>not once at numerous other companies did TCP influence a decision of
>>which I am aware. Getting good support and finding good employees
>>with the requisite skill set were critical.
>>-- 
>>Daniel A. Morgan

>
>
> The TPC is a non-profit organization (www.tpc.org) that is run by the
> vendors, including Oracle.
>
> The "anonymous letter writer" is a lead technical person for a TPC committee
> and has written articles about TPC benchmarks that are published by the ACM
> (link provided on TPC website under Technical Articles).
>
> The person is:
> Meikel Poess
> Principal Software Developer, Oracle Corp.
>
> Meikel is not the only Oracle employee who is or has been deeply involved
> with the TPC. I will not publish his email or phone number for privacy
> reasons.
>
> Once again, Daniel Morgan cries ABSURD at the world, as a child who kicks
> the rock it stumbles on.

How about a survey of those here in this group that have been subjected to our divergent opinions. Not scientific but I'm willing to ask as I rarely refuse to learn new things.

How many people here have had the experience of using the TPC benchmarks as a criterion that they considered in making a decision between purchasing an RDBMS from Oracle vs IBM vs Informix vs Sybase vs Microsoft?

If you did how important was it on a scale of 0 (ignored completely) to 10 (the most important decision maker). And of all of the decisions of which you have been party ... what percentage of them involved any usage of a TPC benchmark.

So there it is ... cards on the table. Let the mayhem begin.

I vote nearly worthless because even though we knew the numbers we also knew they bore no relationship to what we were doing. I score TPC a 2 and about 5%.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)

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