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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. Recently, a SentryOne customer contacted me about performance concerns with their SentryOne database. The Top Queries That Weren't. Fortunately, doing so via better query design, indexing, etc.

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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. Yes, a bit like those 2nd-level caches we were talking about earlier, e.g. Ehcache from 2003 onwards. Who knew! ;). From RInK to LInK.

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HammerDB Best Practice for PostgreSQL Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

This limitation is at the database level rather than the hardware level, nevertheless with up to date hardware (from mid-2018) PostgreSQL on a 2 socket system can be expected to deliver more than 2M PostgreSQL TPM and 1M NOPM with the HammerDB TPC-C test. . Start the PostgreSQL Database. cat /proc/meminfo. HugePages_Total: 35000.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

KB sectors run on smaller sectors   14 System and sample databases   15 Determining the formatted sector size of database   15 What sector sizes does SQL Server support? SQL Server 2005 introduces the snapshot database feature for point-in-time databases ​​ and online DBCC operations.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

However, there are a number of other important applications: Manufacturer-sponsored discounts can fall into this category because a retailer is not concerned about the cost of the incentives (covered by the manufacturer), only about efficient targeting. Prairie, 2003. PZ07] Content-based Recommendation Systems, M. Pazzani, D.

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