For Day 21 of this series, I want to talk a little bit about the TPC-E OLTP benchmark. The TPC Benchmark E (TPC-E) is an OLTP performance benchmark that was introduced in February 2007. TPC-E is a not a replacement for the older TPC-C benchmark, but rather is a completely new OLTP benchmark. It is [...]
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Semi-random musings about SQL Server performance
A SQL Server Hardware Tidbit a Day – Day 21
Posted on: April 22, 2013 2:40 pm
Two New TPC-E Submissions for SQL Server 2012
Posted on: November 29, 2012 11:47 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
Two Database Server Models Compared
Posted on: October 24, 2012 2:49 pm
If you have read my SQL Server Hardware book, or ever heard me do one of my hardware presentations, you have probably heard my exhortations to “Never let anyone talk you into reusing old hardware for a new version of SQL Server”. This is especially true with SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition and its core-based [...]
Hardware 101 Presentation in Bellevue, WA – August 14, 2012
Posted on: August 15, 2012 2:10 am
I recently had the opportunity to give a one hour presentation called Hardware 101: An Introduction to Database Hardware during the evening, after a full day of SQLskills Immersion Event 2 (IE2) training. Even though it was an evening event, after almost 10 hours of intense training that day, nearly all of the students stayed [...]
Recommended Intel Processors For SQL Server 2012 OLTP Workloads
Posted on: May 24, 2012 5:45 pm
If you are in the process of evaluating and selecting the components for a new database server to run an OLTP workload on SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition, you have several initial choices that you have to make as a part of the decision process. First you have to decide whether you want to go [...]
