My previous post focuses on the performance impact of enabling hyperthreading (HT) on a machine with four Intel Westmere-EX processors on reporting queries. Let’s turn our attention to OLTP queries. To oversimplify it, reporting queries are generally processed by scanning a large number of pages, whereas quick index seeks are the hallmark of OLTP ...

For nearly ten years, I have had success in using a specifically modified version of the TPC-C benchmark for evaluating server hardware running SQL Server. Depending on your purpose, you can evaluate computer hardware in numerous ways with numerous benchmarks. Arbitrarily picking a generic benchmark to evaluate a server is of no interest to me. ...