Just when I was not looking, two new official TPC-E results have been posted in the last week. IBM has a 3218.46 TPC-E score for an IBM System x3850 X5 that has four Intel Xeon E7-4870 processors, while HP has an 1881.76 TPC-E score for an HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 system with two Intel Xeon [...]
Glenn Berry
Semi-random musings about SQL Server performance
Two New TPC-E Submissions for SQL Server 2012
Posted on: November 29, 2012 11:47 am
Speaking at the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group Training Days on February 12, 2013
Posted on: November 28, 2012 1:41 pm
In a change of pace, I will be speaking at an Oracle event in February. It is the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group Training Days that goes on from February 11-13, 2013 in Denver, Colorado. This is a pretty large event, with a large list of presentations. I will be doing a hardware presentation, which [...]
Oracle versus Microsoft on Vaporware Fantasies
Posted on: November 25, 2012 6:10 pm
A couple of weeks ago, Oracle’s SVP of Communications Bob Evans wrote a pretty inflammatory blog post that was on ForbesBrandVoice, which seeks to “connect marketers to the Forbes audience”. The original post was removed on November 20, so my link points to a cached copy. In the post, he calls the Microsoft Hekaton project [...]
Deciding What Processor to Choose for SQL Server 2012
Posted on: November 11, 2012 6:26 pm
If you have read my SQL Server Hardware book, watched my Understanding Server Hardware course on Pluralsight or ever heard me speak at a conference, you are probably aware of my very strong advocacy for modern, two-socket Intel-based database servers for many database server workloads. I make this argument because of the excellent single-threaded processor [...]
