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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. When I say “safety” unqualified here, I mean programming language safety, which benefits both software security and software safety. Acknowledgments. Let’s dig in.

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What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter?

HammerDB

This is why the choice of programming language is so important from the outset. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User. For HammerDB both TPROC-C and TPROC-H run all of their workloads on the database being tested in SQL. The following is an example from TPROC-C from SQL Server. select top 100.

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Segmentation Fault – A DBA Perspective

Percona

In order to understand “segmentation fault,” it is a must to know the basic idea of segmentation and its implementation in C programming. When we need to execute any program, it should be loaded into memory first. Here, memory is divided into equal sizes of partitions where the code of a program resides.

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CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment

The Morning Paper

CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment Davis et al., And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes. ASPLOS’19. The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software.

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HammerDB for Managers

HammerDB

HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. An important concept was to simulate database users called Virtual Users in parallel (rather than concurrently) to accurately simulate a real database workload with multiple users running from separate systems. The NOPM Metric.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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HammerDB CLI 101

HammerDB

In the example below we have modified the SQL Server, number of warehouses to build and the virtual users to build them. We have set the connection value of mssqls_server and then the tpcc value of the warehouse count and the number of virtual users to build them. GUI Virtual User Options. CLI Virtual User Options.