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To: david_si who wrote (47244)	6/25/2000 10:52:00 AM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Benchmarks ARE important, and the TPC benchmark is a very important sales argument for Microsoft Windows. There are just two things to be aware of: The relevance and quality of a benchmark. I assume that the quality is good in the TPC benchmark. If you just need many transactions per minute with any unnamed SQL-server, the TPC gives you good advice what to buy. If you need advice on which SQL-Server you should base your investments, the TPC benchmark is only one of many parameters to use. Remember, that proper programming, database design and system design can generate a much higher transaction-per-minute figure for the entire system than you can achieve on a single SQL-server with the TPC-C specified workload. If you already have a database-server, it is likely too expensive to change the underlying database server software, and then the TPC-C is only a guideline for how high you can expect a single database system to reach.

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