Just when I thought I'd covered the last of the exciting benchmarking news, Microsoft turned in several new Transaction Processing Council (TPC) benchmark scores on a beta version of SQL Server 7.5 (that's the name Microsoft submitted, anyway). First, in traditional TPC-C online transaction processing (OLTP) testing, SQL Server posted a new high-end TPC-C score of 40,670, thanks mainly to the use of the new 8-way Intel Profusion chipset. This new TPC-C number shows that the 8-way Profusion chips...