Tag Archives: Fastest DBA

Presented by Lester Knutsen on October 13, 2013

This is a replay of our Webcast on October 15, 2013 to announce the results and winners of the Fastest Informix DBA Contest. Informix DBA's from around the world participated in the challenge to be the Fastest in a combination of OLTP and batch benchmark. The winner is the DBA who had the most transactions per minute in an OLTP benchmark and at the same time run a batch billing job and generate the most bills in a 10 minute run.


Presented by Lester Knutsen on August 20, 2013

This is a replay of our Fastest Informix DBA Contest 2013 status update Webcast on August 20, 2013. This year the Fastest Informix DBA Contest will be held over the web so anyone, anywhere in the world can participate from July 9 to 31, 2013. The challenge will be a combination of OLTP and batch. The winner will be the DBA who can get the most transactions per minute in an OLTP benchmark and at the same time run a batch billing job and generate the most bills in a 10 minute run. For more information on the Fastest Informix DBA Contest click here!


Presented by Lester Knutsen on July 9, 2013

This year the Fastest Informix DBA Contest will be held over the web so anyone, anywhere in the world can participate from July 9 to 31, 2013. The challenge will be a combination of OLTP and batch. The winner will be the DBA who can get the most transactions per minute in an OLTP benchmark and at the same time run a batch billing job and generate the most bills in a 10 minute run.


Presented by Lester Knutsen on June 19, 2012

On Jun 19, 2012, we held a webcast with the Fastest Informix DBA Winner Andrew Ford, hosted by Lester Knutsen and Art Kagel, to share with other Informix users how the winners achieved their results. Learn about the tips and tricks the real Fastest Informix DBAs used to achieve their remarkable performance.


Fastest Informix DBA Contest III – How did they do it?

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Last year at the 2010 IIUG Informix User Conference in Kansas City we hosted a new “Fastest Informix DBA Contest”. This contest was different from the earlier ones, and focused on “How many transactions per minute” could the contestants tune an Informix database to achieve. The previous contests had focused on improving batch processing performance […]

Presented by Lester Knutsen on December 1, 2009

This is a replay from our webcast reviewing the results of our Fastest Informix DBA Contest II, done online in the fall of 2009, discussing how the winners did it. Congratulations to Tatiana Saltykova, new 1st place finisher in the Fastest Informix DBA contest! The challenge was to take a batch billing SQL job that took over 40 hours to run and optimize it and the Informix database configuration.