Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. That's about 24 hours from now!

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). 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. What is MariaDB?

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SQL Performance

MAY 16, 2019

Without this guarantee, SQL Server might add index rows that are not sorted correctly, which would not be good. For INSERT.SELECT , SQL Server makes its own determination whether to ensure rows are presented to the Clustered Index Insert operator in key order or not. DMLRequestSort Conditions.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 26, 2017

My goal is to resolve mysteries about SQL Server I encounter but do this without going straight the source code first. The first case that helped me start this journey was asked by a MVP within the SQL Server community (his first name starts with Joey<g>). The question went something like this….

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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]. Auto-soft NUMA. . ….

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

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. SET NOCOUNT , XACT_ABORT ON ; -- Prevent plan caching for this procedure. -- See [link]. Testing environment. GOTO Start. OPEN SYMMETRIC KEY Banana.

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SQL Performance

MAY 29, 2019

It can be activated from SQL Server 2008 to 2014 inclusive using documented trace flag 610. From SQL Server 2016 onward, FastLoadContext is enabled by default ; the trace flag is not required. For more background, see the Data Performance Loading Guide and the Tiger Team notes on the behaviour changes for SQL Server 2016.

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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

This was starting to look like a Windows file cache bug. Maybe something to do with multi-socket coherency of the disk and cache or ??? This bug shows up from Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7) up to the latest stable build of Windows 10 and OS fixes will take a while to propagate so you might as well be careful.

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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

I immediately saw that CcmExec.exe (part of Microsoft’s System Management Server ) had 508,000 handles open, which is both a lot and also amazingly close to my zombie count. I don’t know what that means but my guess would be that that indicates more data being cached, which would be a good thing.

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Processing Programming Code Cache 72

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008.

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