SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

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Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2017 and was updated in August 2023. MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. Set the server-id to a unique value. Start the replica server’s replication process.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). MariaDB Server, on the other hand, is a fork of MySQL 5.5. What is MariaDB?

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Co-founder Eliot Horowitz recounts ( {coding}bootcamps.io ): “MongoDB was born out of our frustration using tabular databases in large, complex production deployments.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. In a sharded cluster, each shard acts as an independent database responsible for storing and managing specific data.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

​​​​ A utility would issue the dbcc freeze to stop the I/O activity for the database. ​​ When the utility attempted to issue the thaw command the command would be queued, and the database could not return to an operational state until SQL Server was restarted.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. Xen AWS 2017 In 2015, AWS launched c4, which used hardware virtualization for EBS volumes. The first was c3.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Traffic shaping / canary deployment was pre-announced at Serverless Conf NYC in October, and this is now available. there’s no inline debugging available in the Lambda Console.) without web app servers?—?to Serverless Aurora promises to be the SQL Database to partner with Lambda that we’ve been hoping for.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Prior to SQL Server 2017 CU4 for Linux (Linux only) the generation of a sequential UUID may not function as expected. SQL Server’s NewSequentialId () calls the Windows API UuidCreateSequential , which is limited in SQLPAL, prior to the CU 4 update. Server B may be generating uuids that sort before those from Server A.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 11, 2021

One is using a function called DATE_BUCKET , which at the time of writing is only available in Azure SQL Edge. Another is using a custom calculation that emulates the DATE_BUCKET function, which you can use in any version, edition, and flavor of SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. DATE_BUCKET. OrderValues. 2018 408 617085.30

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

USENIX is a nonprofit organisation committed to making content and research freely available – both conference proceedings and the recorded presentations of their events. Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem. In Facebook’s implementation of NativeLoglet, seal simply sets a bit on a quorum of servers.

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SQL Performance

JULY 9, 2019

This feature is currently not available in T-SQL. I posted a suggestion to improve SQL Server by adding support for nested window functions. At the date of this writing, there's not much information available out there about the true standard nested window functions. 2 2017-09-18 88.80 10248 85 2017-07-04 440.00

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Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Text search.

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

I'll continue using the sample database TSQLV5 like last month in some of my examples. You can find the script that creates and populates this database here , and its ER diagram here. Unfortunately, this clause is not yet available in T-SQL. 10249 2017-07-10 10252 2017-07-11 10250 2017-07-12.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Even among people who do have a good grasp of relational theory and SQL, you will hear very strong opinions both in favor and against using NULLs in your database. Finally, I cover missing standard features related to NULL handling in T-SQL and suggest alternatives that are available in T-SQL. NULL as a marker for a missing value.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. I will be using the 50GB Stack Overflow 2013 database , but any large table with a low number of distinct values would do. The Stack Overflow 2013 database comes without nonclustered indexes to minimize download time. Test Environment.

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Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications. A Query Execution Plan is the way a database chooses to run a specific query. The global default can be set at server startup. This variable has global and session values and can be changed at runtime.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 5, 2019

One of the more perplexing problems to troubleshoot in SQL Server can be those related to memory grants. SQL Server’s optimizer estimates how much memory is needed, and the query must obtain the memory grant in order to start executing. ALTER DATABASE [ WideWorldImporters ] SET QUERY_STORE = ON ; GO. sort, hash).

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 28, 2018

Resource Manager – Database, File System, with ACID capabilities. Note: SQL Server can be a client using a linked server, allowing SQL Server to become an APP and/or an RM ). Once the connection to SQL Server is established the APP executes the odbc! Microsoft specific implementation for DTC using (OLE-TX).

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! What on Earth is Ubuntu doing that results in 30% higher CPU time!?

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Particular Software

MARCH 15, 2021

As popular as NoSQL databases have become, you’d be hard-pressed to find a successful business that isn’t running some flavor of SQL somewhere. For NServiceBus systems, our SQL Persistence package allows you to use whatever flavor of SQL works best for you, supporting dialects for Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.

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SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

First introduced in SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition, an adaptive join enables a runtime transition from a batch mode hash join to a row mode correlated nested loops indexed join (apply) at runtime. Like any hash join, an adaptive join reads all rows available on its build input and copies the required data into a hash table.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 1, 2017

At re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Time Sync Service which provides a highly accurate and reliable global time reference. This service is immediately available in all AWS regions. TrueTime was introduced to support Spanner - Google’s globally distributed, and synchronously-replicated database.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. Modern network performance and availability. The Moto G4 , for example. Hard Reset.

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SQL Performance

MAY 7, 2019

I’m going to introduce you to wait statistics and explain how critical they are for troubleshooting workload performance in SQL Server. The execution of SQL Server’s internal code is done using a mechanism called threads. When that happens, SQL Server makes a note of why the thread had to wait and this is called the wait type.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. AMD EPYC 7551 Details.

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Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Partitioning is a way in which a database (MySQL in this case) splits its actual data down into separate tables but still gets treated as a single table by the SQL layer. So, What is MySQL Partitioning? Additionally, MySQL 8.0

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 84.1 | | version_comment | Percona Server (GPL), Release 84.1, With faster disks (i.e. MySQL on ec2.

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

I was smart and took a backup of the original source, and created a procedure to revert the database back to its initial state. The downside to the latter is that, in SQL Server 2017, you cannot run this online… but you will be able to in 2019.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 23, 2019

In SQL Server 2012, grouped (vector) aggregation was able to use parallel batch-mode execution, but only for the partial (per-thread) aggregate. SQL Server 2014 added the ability to perform parallel batch-mode grouped aggregation within a single Hash Match Aggregate operator. instructions are available. Introduction.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 13, 2017

got a lot smoother at re:Invent 2017. A thousand-times scaled Lambda could easily cause significant performance problems to a modest SQL database server. Enter Reserved Concurrency At re:Invent 2017 the Lambda team announced a new feature?—? One of those edges?—?that we can now do that.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! What on Earth is Ubuntu doing that results in 30% higher CPU time!?

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