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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. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant.

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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. . CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0. bin/initdb -D./data.

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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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