Re: Oracle Benchmark Results for Different Hardware Configurations?

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:48:49 +0000, Bob Jones wrote:

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> How does TPC results reflect the performance of a particular Siebel or SAP
> implementation?
>

Nope. And it shouldn't. That is perhaps why there are several different benchmarks in the TPC studies, each reflecting different workloads. Resulting in the ability for people to make a reasonable guess.

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> Again, what's the use of TPC if you are doing your own benchmarking?

<sigh>
TPC is a reference. It is not intended to reflect a specific application, but to give a way of comparing things through ratios ... in spite of all the problems with ratios.

Benchmarking the actual application *properly* is always preferable to TPC (unless the benchmark must take politics into account). Like all the other public benchmarks, it is designed as a reference and must be used intelligently.

From your stance on this subject, I take it you (or your organization) is fortunate enough to have the skills, time, equipment and vendor relationships to be able to properly benchmark - /including verifiably correct application, OS and hardware tuning/ - for every application, server, disk and I/O controller combination of interest, at the application full load run time configuration. For that I commend you ....

No need to drag this on - you get the last comment.

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