Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I've been teaching and writing about common SQL Server mistakes for many years. 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. SQL Server Agent alerts. I always check backups first when looking at a new system. Statistics.

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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

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon. So, what has changed my mind?

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 22, 2016

Prior to SQL Server 2016 the trace flag –T8048 is used to upgrade (only) NUMA partitioned, CMemThread objects to CPU partitioned based objects. Keep in mind that the vast majority of CMemThread objects (SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, Azure DB and 2016) are not partitioned. Instead the design of CMemThread was updated.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 15, 2021

In my last post , I illustrated one reason you should stop using deprecated system tables like sysprocesses. This wasn't for performance reasons, directly, or to simply follow Microsoft's documented best practices, but revolved more around the decisions you might make when you only have access to some of the data.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. Test Environment. The cost threshold for parallelism is set to 50.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Table-valued parameters have been around since SQL Server 2008 and provide a useful mechanism for sending multiple rows of data to SQL Server, brought together as a single parameterized call. The DataTable can be created multiple ways in the.NET code, but a common way to create the table is something like the following: System.

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SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2020

In a recent tip , I described a scenario where a SQL Server 2016 instance seemed to be struggling with checkpoint times. I was a bit perplexed by this issue, since the system was certainly no slouch — plenty of cores, 3TB of memory, and XtremIO storage. How It Works: When is the FlushCache message added to SQL Server Error Log?

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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 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. The SQL Server lock manager keeps track of the number of locks held by the current transaction. Testing environment. Well, almost. Integer division.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon RDS for SQL Server. We introduced Amazon RDS for Oracle last year , and based on the demand from our Windows customers, are introducing Amazon RDS for SQL Server today. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments ().

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SQL Performance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

There are multiple methods to look at poorly performing queries in SQL Server, notably Query Store, Extended Events, and dynamic management views (DMVs). Extended Events provides data about the individual execution of queries, while Query Store and the DMVs aggregate performance data. Each option has pros and cons.

C++ 74

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. Jack: Since our launch in late 2008, weve grown to over 6 million teachers and students globally primarily through word of mouth of teachers who have shared Edmodo with each other. Comments ().

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High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 26, 2019

The DTU calculator is a free tool you can use to upload performance metrics from your server, and use the data to determine the appropriate service tier if you were to migrate that server to an Azure SQL Database (or to a SQL Database elastic pool ). The default is -1, which means copy all watched SQL Servers.

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Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

With the latest ClickHouse version, all of these features are available, but some of them may not perform fast enough. In a partitioned massively parallel database system, the storage format and sorting algorithm may not be optimized for that operation as we are reading multiple partitions in parallel. Deleting messages. Text search.

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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 work on the Windows version of Chrome, and one of my tasks is optimizing its build system, which requires doing a lot of test builds.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Using SQL Server’s SNITrace to Troubleshoot Networking Issues In the process of tracking down a few TCP 10054 issues (highlighted here: ​​ [link] ) I ​​ also ​​ used ​​ the ​​ SNITrace ​​ (SNI Trace) ​​ capabilities.

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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The underlying bug is that if a program writes a PE file (EXE or DLL) using memory mapped file I/O and if that program is then immediately executed (or loaded with LoadLibrary or LoadLibraryEx), and if the system is under very heavy disk I/O load, then a necessary file-buffer flush may fail. Or did we just get lucky or oblivious?

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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. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up. To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022.

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