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Showcases Superior Performance and Price-Performance in Data Warehousing: Oracle today announced a new world record TPC-H 10 Terabyte (TB) benchmark result for Oracle Database 10g Release 2, representing the fastest performance result for a non-clustered configuration and the best price-performance overall with this benchmark. Along with this achievement, Oracle also holds world record performance results for the Three TB, One TB and 300 Gigabyte TPC-H scale factors, showcasing the company's superior data warehousing capabilities. Running on an HP Integrity Superdome server with 64 Dual-Core Intel Itanium2 1.6 GHz processors using the HP-UX 11i operating environment, Oracle Database 10g Release 2 achieved a world record non-clustered performance of 171,380 QphH@10000GB with a price-performance ratio of $38.98/QphH@10000GB. "Customers continue to strive for better business intelligence to stay competitive, which requires exceptional performance from their databases to process increasingly complex queries," said Richard Sarwal, vice president of Server Performance at Oracle. "Oracle devotes significant resources to continuously grow its leadership in providing superior performance with Oracle Database 10g," As the leading database for large data warehouses and business intelligence systems, Oracle Database 10g provides a fast, reliable and scalable server engine to help customers improve business performance, refine market strategies and identify opportunities to reduce costs. This new benchmark illustrates the advantages that lead customers to Oracle to run very large databases.