http://sqlblog.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&tag=Hardware,Oracle&orTags=0Search results matching tags 'Hardware' and 'Oracle'en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)http://sqlblog.com/blogs/kevin_kline/archive/2012/03/06/accelerate-oltp-with-hp-and-microsoft-s-new-high-performance-reference-architecture.aspxTue, 06 Mar 2012 15:25:00 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:42126KKline<p>If you haven't started to read Shashank Pawar (<a title="Shashank Pawar's Blog" href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/sqlman/">blog</a>), you're missing out. Shashank is part of Microsoft Australia and has been writing some very good content lately. Here's an example from the Reference Architecture for High Performance SQL Server:</p><p style="padding-left:30px;"><span>HP and Microsoft engineering teams have worked together to create a reference architecture to Accelerate Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) database workloads with a fully-flash based HP/Microsoft architecture and achieve significant performance increases, simplified database manageability, and industry leading TCO.</span></p><p>The details come in a torrent after that leading paragraph with lots of pretty pictures and charts to help explain. This is great stuff, especially for competitive platforms such as Oracle Exadata. </p><p>Read more about the new <a title="High Performance SQL Server 2012" href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/sqlman/archive/2012/02/16/reference-architecture-for-high-performance-sql-server.aspx">HP High Performance Reference Architecture for SQL Server 2012</a> here.</p><p>And just out of curiousity, are any of you using high performance architectures such as Oracle Exadata, IBM Netezza, or Teradata? I'd love to hear your feedback, questions, and comments.</p><p>Enjoy,</p><p>-Kev </p><p>-<a title="Kevin Kline's Twitter Feed" href="http://twitter.com/kekline">Follow me on Twitter</a></p><p>-<a title="Kevin Kline's Blog" href="http://KevinEKline.com">More on my KevinEKline.com</a></p>