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- From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: [l/m 12/1/92] TPC Transaction Processing Council (21/28) c.be FAQ
- Keywords: business, online transactions processing, database,
- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 12:25:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.122507.28999@nas.nasa.gov>
- Reply-To: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
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- 21 TPC <This panel>
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- 25 Ridiculously short benchmarks
- 26 Other miscellaneous benchmarks
- 27
- 28 References
- 1 Introduction to FAQ chain and netiquette
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- 3 PERFECT
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- 5 Performance Metrics
- 6 Temporary scaffold of New FAQ material
- 7 Music to benchmark by
- 8 Benchmark types
- 9 Linpack
- 10
- 11 NIST source and .orgs
- 12 Benchmark Environments
- 13 SLALOM
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- 15 12 Ways to Fool the Masses with Benchmarks
- 16 SPEC
- 17 Benchmark invalidation methods
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- 19 WPI Benchmark
- 20 Equivalence
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- OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing): Jim Gray, DEC, was Tandem, was IBM
- Has a new book out on the subject. Also O. Serlin follows this.
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- TPC A and TPC B benchmarks are well documented, audited by outside firms,
- and the results kept by the Transaction Processing Council.
- The TPC administrator is:
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- Shanley Public Relations
- 777 N. First Street
- Suite 600
- San Jose, CA 95112-6311
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- TPC/A TPC/B
- Location: FTP from DG.COM (128.222.1.2), login anonymous, directory tpc.
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- Name Description
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- Results-text Results spreadsheet
- (format: tab separated text)
- (size: 15KB)
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- Results-sylk Results spreadsheet
- (format: SYLK spreadsheet interchange format)
- (size: 26KB)
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- TPCARev1.1 TPC Benchmark A Standard Specification Rev 1.1
- (format: Macintosh Microsoft Word)
- (size: 153KB)
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- TPCARev1.1-PS TPC Benchmark A Standard Specification Rev 1.1
- (format: Postscript)
- (size: 816KB)
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- TPCARev1.1-RTF TPC Benchmark A Standard Specification Rev 1.1
- (format: Rich Text Format - interchange format)
- (size: 243KB)
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- TPCBRev1.1 TPC Benchmark B Standard Specification Rev 1.1
- (format: Macintosh Microsoft Word)
- (size: 126KB)
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- TPCBRev1.1-PS TPC Benchmark B Standard Specification Rev 1.1
- (format: PostScript)
- (size: 993KB)
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- TPCBRev1.1-RTF TPC Benchmark B Standard Specification Rev 1.1
- (format: Rich Text Format - interchange format)
- (size: 194KB)
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- As for the code, the benchmark specs have sample SQL codes, but they may not
- help you very much. Every implementation is going to be different.
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- After all:
- what is a "transaction?" (but an arbitrary definition.)
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