All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The increasing sophistication of client-side JavaScript has redefined what dynamic means; where in the past dynamic content would be mainly server generated, today much content is served statically with JavaScript on the client side doing the dynamic modifications. No Server Required.

Servers 126

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

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.

Tuning 115

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SQL Performance

MARCH 22, 2022

This series doesn’t dwell too long on the basics but concentrates on less well-known aspects likely to trip up even the most experienced database professionals. It's almost always better to explicitly parameterize statements, rather than relying on the server to do it. ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION. Shell Plans.

Cache 61

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SQL Server Performance

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Recently we started experiencing a very strange issue in our production reporting environment where the Re-indexing and Update Statistics operation suddenly began taking more than 2 days to complete and was thus causing blockage in the database which in turn caused impairment in application performance.

Tuning 40

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SQL Performance

JULY 1, 2021

There was the case where a colleague constantly promoted the deprecated backward compatibility view sys.sysprocesses instead of newer dynamic management views (DMVs), and another case where a different colleague took down a production server using SQL Server Profiler. USE BadIdeas ; GO. CREATE TABLE dbo. [ object_id ] WHERE p.

C++ 58

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times. They transparently distribute stored objects across the cluster’s servers and ensure that data is not lost if a server or network component fails.

Ecommerce 52

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times. They transparently distribute stored objects across the cluster’s servers and ensure that data is not lost if a server or network component fails.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I would like to share a couple of recent examples that help illustrate how using deprecated SQL Server features continues to bite us. The system table sys.sysprocesses was replaced way back in SQL Server 2005 by a set of dynamic management views (DMVs), most notably sys.dm_exec_requests , sys.dm_exec_sessions , and sys.dm_exec_connections.

Latency 57

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SQL Performance

MARCH 30, 2021

This five-part series takes a deep dive into the way SQL Server row mode parallel plans start up. I used the public Stack Overflow 2013 database ( download details ). ) ; My test environment is SQL Server 2019 CU9 on a laptop with 8 cores and 16GB of memory allocated to the instance. It can be downloaded at the same link.

Cache 98

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SQL Performance

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In my examples I'll use a sample database called TSQLV5. You can find the script that creates and populates this database here , and its ER diagram here. The EOMONTH function was introduced in SQL Server 2012. SQL Server 2017 introduced support for the function TRIM. SQL Server 2012 introduced the function CONCAT.

C++ 111

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KeyCDN

MARCH 28, 2019

They are responsible for the implementation of database systems, ensuring proper communication between various web services, generating backend functionality, and more. Laravel also offers its own database migration system and has a robust ecosystem. Backend developers work with a wide range of libraries, APIs, web services, etc.

Programming 77

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. The SQL Server Development team tasked several individuals with scalability improvements and real world testing patterns. – [link]. Follow-up.

Hardware 40

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. . --> Remember the original VMware x86 hypervisor from 1998?

Virtualization 111

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 12, 2020

In my examples I’ll use a sample database called TSQLV5. So it could be that the term originated in one of the database products and later adopted by some of the other database vendors. So it could be that the term originated in one of the database products and later adopted by some of the other database vendors.

C++ 140

C++ Code Design Database 140

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. . --> Remember the original VMware x86 hypervisor from 1998?

Virtualization 40

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