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

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

HammerDB

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

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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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? What have the authors got against this combination? Who knew! ;).

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HammerDB: Using MySQL 5.7 vs 8.0 to understand performance profiles

HammerDB

One of the most important concepts in analysing database performance is that of understanding scalability. Plotting these data points enables us to understand the scalability of the database software being tested on that system. software running on the same server. In this example, we will compare MySQL 5.7.33 and MySQL 8.0.25

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HammerDB Concepts and Architecture

HammerDB

However if you have downloaded the source code and are looking to add features or make modifications such as adding new databases you may be wondering once you have the source code where to start. However HammerDB will not be able to connect to a database yet and the librarycheck command included with the CLI gives an indication why.