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

Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. It is largely an unofficial response to published comments from the MariaDB Corporation. What is MariaDB?

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

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

The new column store engine and query processing technology could increase query performance up to 100X and the new In-memory OLTP engine can process 1.25million batches/sec on a single 4 socket server, which is more than 3X of SQL 2014. “ – Rohan Kumar, Director of SQL Software Engineering. Auto-soft NUMA. Batch Requests / Sec.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

One year after a Tock release Intel would take that same microarchitecture (with some minor improvements), and use a shrink of the manufacturing process to create a Tick release. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile. There are many reasons!

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

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

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