Jacques, That is not a joke. You have presented a verified and published figure and surely the vendors stand by it ! Let's all plan to achieve such a throughput in all our Oracle OLTP Databases this year. Our 2005 New Year Resolution ! Hemant At 03:05 AM Saturday, you wrote: >This will give you a baseline to work from: >For an OLTP system using Oracle database software, you should be able to >do 1,184,893 transactions per minute with an Oracle database. Anything >less and you have insufficient CPU, RAM or I/O. > >http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp > Hemant K Chitale http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l