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

Percona

Default settings can help you get started quickly – but they can also cost you performance and a higher cloud bill at the end of the month. I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill? After that, things went back to normal.

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Impact of Querying Table Information From information_schema

Percona

A lot of useful information can be retrieved from this schema, for example, table metadata and foreign key relations, but trying to query I_S can induce performance degradation if your server is under heavy load, as shown in the following example test. ” under heavy load + I_S queries” to check for performance degradation.

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Why MySQL Could Be Slow With Large Tables

Percona

While the technologies have evolved and matured enough, there are still some people thinking that MySQL is only for small projects or that it can’t perform well with large tables. With disks being faster nowadays and CPU and memory resources being cheaper, we could easily say MySQL can handle TBs of data with good performance.

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Examining the Performance Impact of an Adhoc Workload

SQL Performance

The same number adhoc executions took just over 60 seconds to complete, with Compilations/sec spiking near 2000 before dropping closer to 1000 around the 45 second mark, with CPU close to or at 100% for the majority of time. The post Examining the Performance Impact of an Adhoc Workload appeared first on SQLPerformance.com.

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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

. ‘It Just Runs Faster’ – Out of the box SQL Server 2016 DBCC provides you better performance, scale while shrinking your maintenance window(s.). The DBCC CheckDB demonstration loads a table and demonstrates the performance improvement. insert into tblDBCC (strData) values ( replicate(N’X’, 2000) ).

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A thorough introduction to bpftrace

Brendan Gregg

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. Linux already has many performance tools, but these are often counter-based and have limited visibility. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. usdt User-level statically defined tracing.

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