On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Simon Riggs wrote:

> Our main test case for OLTP is DBT-2 which follows TPC-C in being
> perfectly scalable with no hot spots in the heap and limited hot spots
> in the indexes. As such it's a poor test of real world applications,
> where Benfold's Law holds true.

I assume this is a typo on Benford's Law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law which notes there are far more
ones in real-world data sets.

If there were a Benfold's Law, it would surely involve the number 5
instead.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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