Tag Archives: TPC-E

Two Socket Database Servers vs. Four Socket Database Servers

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

Fujitsu has submitted a new TPC-E benchmark for a two socket, Sandy Bridge-EP system that had a tpsE score of 1,871.81.  It is no real surprise that this system is using the very capable Intel Xeon E5-2690 processor, which has … Continue reading →

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Second TPC-E Benchmark Result Published For SQL Server 2012

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

NEC has submitted the second TPC-E OLTP benchmark result for SQL Server 2012, running on an Express5800/A1080a-E system, which is a new record of 4614.22 TpsE. This is for an eight socket system with 2.4GHz Intel Xeon E7-8870 processors, 2048GB … Continue reading →

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New TPC-E Benchmark for HP DL385 G7

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

Somewhat unnoticed during the holiday season, HP has submitted a new TPC-E benchmark for the DL385 G7 two socket database server, equipped with two 32nm 2.6GHz AMD Opteron 6282SE processors. This system, with 256GB of RAM and 84 spindles (in … Continue reading →

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Two New TPC-E Submissions

Posted on August 4, 2011 by

Two new TPC-E OLTP Benchmark Submissions have shown up in the last month or so since I last recapped three recent submissions back on June 15. The TPC-E benchmark is a very useful comparison and sizing tool for OLTP workloads. … Continue reading →

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Three New TPC-E Submissions

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

I just noticed three very recent new TPC-E Benchmark Submissions that I thought were quite interesting. As I have written before, I think the TPC-E OLTP benchmark is a very useful tool for helping to make hardware selection and sizing … Continue reading →

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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 24

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

For Day 24 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 … Continue reading →

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TPC-E Benchmark Analysis by CPU Type

Posted on January 1, 2011 by

As an experiment, I decided to import the current official TPC-E results spreadsheet into a SQL Server 2008 R2 database, so I could easily query and do some basic analysis against the results. I did a little data cleansing so … Continue reading →

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