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Save Money in AWS RDS: Don’t Trust the Defaults

Percona

The innodb_io_capacity_max parameter was set to 2000, so the hardware should be able to deliver that many IOPS without major issues. Results in CloudWatch show we were right: The reduction during the last couple of weeks is more than 50% of IOPS, which is pretty decent now, and we haven’t changed the hardware at all.

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Impact of Querying Table Information From information_schema

Percona

The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. Setup The setup consists of creating 10K tables with sysbench and adding 20 FKs to 20 tables.

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Why MySQL Could Be Slow With Large Tables

Percona

With hardware being more powerful and cheaper, and the technology evolving, now it is easier than ever to manage large tables in MySQL. 1 mysql mysql 592K Dec 30 02:48 tb1.ibd ibd -rw-r --. 1 mysql mysql 464K Dec 30 02:48 tb2.ibd ibd -rw-r --. 1 mysql mysql 464K Dec 30 02:48 tb3.ibd ibd -rw-r --. 1 mysql mysql 464K Dec 30 02:48 tb4.ibd

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Scalability: strong and weak scaling

PDC

In such scenarios, scalability or scaling is widely used to indicate the ability of hardware and software to deliver greater computational power when the amount of resources is increased. Table 1: Strong scaling for Julia set generator code. Table 2: Weak scaling for Julia set generator code.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

Books Online (BOL) References: ​​ All BOL references cited in this paper are taken from the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Books Online site (updated to include SP3 functionality), which can be found at: [link] Click the Product Documentation link. SQL Server 2000/7.0 data pages are 8 KB in size.

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. The tech economy suffered greatly in the wake of the dot-com bubble bursting in 2000.

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SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: DBCC Scales 7x Better

SQL Server According to Bob

On the same hardware/machine repeat steps 1 thru 3 using an instance of SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0 iID int NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED, strData nvarchar(2000) NOT NULL. ). insert into tblDBCC (strData) values ( replicate(N’X’, 2000) ). Paste the script below in a new query window. or newer release.