SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. SSRS 2008 brought that component into the reporting service module. Unlike the system database tempdb, ReportServerTempDB is not recreated at startup.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

SQL Performance

MAY 16, 2019

Achieving minimal logging using INSERT.SELECT into an empty clustered index target is not quite as simple as described in the Data Performance Loading Guide. The Data Loading Performance Guide contains a high-level summary of the conditions required for minimal logging into clustered tables: This post is concerned with the top row only.

Cache 67

Cache Servers Testing Storage 67

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 26, 2017

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a feature that was introduced in SQL Server 2008 (and is also available for Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Parallel Data Warehouse) with the purpose of encrypting your data at rest. That is to ensure your database is encrypted at the file level.

Servers 40

Servers Database Azure Cache 40

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Let’s look at some examples using a fresh database. I happen to be using SQL Server 2019 CU16 but the details I’ll describe haven’t materially changed since partition level lock escalation was added to SQL Server 2008. USE master ; -- Create a new test database. -- COLLATE clause only to remind people it exists. GOTO Start.

Database 98

Database Storage Testing Servers 98

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. When looking at backups, I check for recovery model and the current history of backups for each database. Azure SQL Database and Azure Managed Instance have managed backups.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

In the Sep 2014 the SQL Server CSS and Development teams performed a deep dive focused on scalability and performance when running on current and new hardware configurations. With our focused investment in performance and scale, simply upgrading to SQL 2016 could bring 25% performance improvement. – [link].

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40