Sqlserver

Comparing BenchmarkSQL Performance on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 5 to Windows Server Enterprise

http://www.redhat.com/pdf/rhel/bmsql-postgres-sqlsrvr-v1.0-1.pdf “This paper compares the performance of an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) based

hardware pics for 2007 (Joe Chang : Server Sizing for SQL Server 2000 and 2005)

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/joe_chang/archive/2007/12/20/server-sizing-for-sql-server-2000-and-2005.aspx how to pick a server hardware in 2007, Q12008. The article is about sqlserver, but it equally applies to any other computing tasks

Paul Nielsen : 10 lessons from 35K tps

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_nielsen/archive/2007/12/12/10-lessons-from-35k-tps.aspx notes (somewhat interesting) about big OLTP system based on SQLserver