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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. H ammerDB CLI v3.1.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

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