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Pennzoil-Quaker State Company Selects Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Overview Houston-based Pennzoil Company is a $2.7 billion energy company with three primary business operations’ oil and gas exploration and production, manufacturing and marketing of motor oil and other petrochemical and automotive products. Pennzoil needs to preserve the cost efficiency of its SAP R/3 operation while doubling the number of daily transactions and quadrupling the size of its database. It also needs to maintain timely and economical access to daily sales and operating statistic. Above all, the company needs to maintain consistent service levels, despite the increased demand. By upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Beta 3, the company doubled transaction throughput, eliminated 97 percent of transaction wait time, and reduced the database size by 25 percent. Pennzoil's decision to move to SQL Server 7.0 Beta 3 was based on the need to maintain specific service levels for each business unit in the face of significant growth. The conversion was completed ahead of schedule, the company achieved a greater improvement in throughput than they expected, and the system has remained stable.
| Publisher | Microsoft | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | September 2003 | ||
| Format | Case Studies | ||
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