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Oracle today announced a world record SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) Standard Application Two-tier Benchmark result, surpassing IBM DB2's best result and underscoring the superior query processing power of Oracle Database 10g running a variety of enterprise applications. Running the SAP BW 3.5 workload, Oracle Database 10g achieved the leading world record performance result of 182,340 QS/h (query navigation steps per hour) on a Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMEPOWER 550 server with 8 SPARC64 V processors and the Sun Solaris 10 operating system. The scenario included a 16 GB main memory, which corresponds to 233,600,000 records in the fact table. "This benchmark solidifies Oracle Database 10g's leadership position for running a wide range of applications and meeting significant performance demands," said Richard Sarwal, vice president of Server Performance, Oracle. "This is a major milestone in demonstrating our ability to deliver high- performance, data processing power beyond what our competitors offer customers." In addition to holding the performance world records for the SAP BW configuration, Oracle is the performance world record leader for the two-tier Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark, three-tier Assemble to Order (ATO) Standard Application Benchmark, two-tier ATO Standard Application Benchmark and the SAP SD Parallel Standard Application Benchmark. It is the preferred database for deployments of SAP solutions, and continues to innovate and maintain its leadership. Today's announcement is proof of Oracle's commitment to providing customers with a fast, reliable and scalable technology infrastructure.