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 Are all transactions created equally?

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ferrethouse
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

352 Posts

Posted - 2012-08-16 : 12:14:30
I know the answer to that question is no but I want to gauge the extent that my metrics are of value. I used a tool called SQLStress to determine how many transactions/second various AWS instances could support. I found that the cc2.8xlarge instance could support 12190 transactions per second. I then turned on perfmon on my local production server and checked the SQL Server transactions/second metric. It averages about 1000 transactions/second. But I suspect that the transactions contained in the SQLStress software are less complex than many of the transactions performed by our application so I don't know how much comfort I can derive from the analysis. Your thoughts?

jackv
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2179 Posts

Posted - 2012-08-16 : 15:10:35
Compaing the two different traces is probably not of great value. Do you have any other benchmark figures to compare? You can also use TPC and generate some test dats.


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