Performance and Scalability: SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition Benchmarks

SQL Server 2005 achieved the #1 price/performance result for 3TB TPC-H non-clustered benchmark. This is a record breaking TPC-H three terabyte benchmark for a database running on Microsoft Windows and an HP Integrity rx8640 Server. The recent TPC-H benchmark study with HP demonstrates Microsoft SQL Server’s ability to deliver enterprise scalability and performance enabling our customers to run large scale, mission critical applications with the best price/performance.

This result is twice the size of previous SQL Server benchmarks achieved for the launch of SQL Server 2005 demonstrating that SQL Server continues to push the performance envelope. Furthermore, SQL Server 2005 outperformed the previous best result on Windows with performance of 60,359 QphH@3TB (queries per hour) compared to the previous record of 37,813 with a much better price/performance of $32.60 compared to $38.00.*

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