3. The Transaction Processing Council (TPC) is a not-for-profit corporation that defines transaction processing and database benchmarks and publishes vendor-neutral, verifiable performance data. Visit its Web site at tpc.org.

a. What are TPC-C, TPC-R, and TPC-W?

b. Suppose you work in the marketing department at Oracle Corporation. How would you use the TPC results in the TPC-C benchmark? C. What are the dangers to Oracle in your answer to part b?

d. Suppose you work in the marketing department for DB2 at IBM. How would you use the TPC results in the TPC-C benchmark?

e. Do the results for TPC-C change your answer to question 1?

f. If you are a DBMS vendor, can you ignore benchmarks?