Tag Archives: TPC-H

More March Madness with Oracle Exadata

There’s a basketball play called the elbow pass. The elbow pass is a behind-the-back pass — as the ball crosses the player’s back, the player hits it with his elbow, redirecting the ball back toward the side it started on.  It is rarely used and pretty much never results in points or a win. This [...] Continue reading

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I Want to Buy a Zoo, Not an Oracle System

Most people don’t think about going to the zoo in the middle of winter. But it’s actually the very best time to go. No crowds, the zebra fried oreo shacks are closed, and the animals are at their very best. And, after all, isn’t that what it’s really all about? Last week, I had a [...] Continue reading

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All I Want for Christmas is a Good T4 Benchmark

I read an article the other day about a Santa school where aspiring Santas go to learn about how to be Santa Claus. Important concepts like how to comb your beard, how to make that amazing Ho Ho Ho, and where to properly keep your hands when a kid is on your lap. In this [...] Continue reading

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Is There a “Right” and “Wrong” with Benchmarks?

Like many of our politicians lately, Oracle has been proselytizing — in this case that there are certain benchmarks which are right and certain benchmarks which are wrong. In their evaluation Oracle claims to focus on all the right benchmarks while claiming that everyone else is focusing on the wrong ones. Let’s take a look [...] Continue reading

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Is There a “Right” and “Wrong” with Benchmarks?

Like many of our politicians lately, Oracle has been proselytizing — in this case that there are certain benchmarks which are right and certain benchmarks which are wrong. In their evaluation Oracle claims to focus on all the right benchmarks while claiming that everyone else is focusing on the wrong ones. Let’s take a look [...] Continue reading

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Whad’Ya Know – Great IBM Facts this Week

IBM Cloud revenue year to date has doubled full-year 2010 revenue. There’s a new redpaper, Smarter Data Centers: Accelerating the Move to a Smarter Planet, with extremely “cool” case studies. IBM announced the first Storage Performance Council (SPC) result with XIV, the very first on the SPC-2/E benchmark. The XIV Storage System demonstrated its ability [...] Continue reading

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