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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

WordPress also benefited from and popularized MySQL, introducing the LAMP stack – and open source – to an audience that might never have touched a database before or had any intro to open source. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. With a little tuning, though, MySQL could hold its own.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

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. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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Data Redundancy With the PostgreSQL Citus Extension

Percona

Data redundancy, a database version of a RAID Pondering the case of high availability and redundancy, one replicates data by creating a replica via streaming replication. Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. Extension citus has been created in database db01.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation. ​​ All rights reserved.

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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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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Many of our customers have, with the click of a button, created DynamoDB deployments in a matter of minutes that are able to serve trillions of database requests per year. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. As Amazonâ??s

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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