All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. To do so, weve leaned heavily on the core principles from the distributed systems and database research communities and invented from there.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 29, 2022

Simple parameterization has a number of quirks in this area, which can result in more parameterized plans being cached than expected, or finding different results compared with the unparameterized version. When SQL Server applies simple parameterization to an ad-hoc statement, it makes a guess about the data type of the replacement parameter.

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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. In this first part, after a quick introduction, I look at the effects of simple parameterization on the plan cache. ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION. Shell Plans.

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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

APRIL 18, 2022

It’s no surprise even highly experienced SQL Server users tend to get this wrong, given the contradictory information often supplied to us. Let’s look at some examples using the Stack Overflow 2010 database on SQL Server 2019 CU 14, with database compatibility set to 150. Parameterization Not Attempted. Users AS U.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 8, 2022

When the parser allows simple parameterization to continue, SQL Server® increments the Auto-Param Attempts/sec counter of the SQL Statistics object. As in previous parts, code examples use the Stack Overflow 2010 database on SQL Server 2019 CU 16 with the following additional nonclustered index: CREATE INDEX [ IX dbo.

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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 ). The desired plan shape can also be obtained against the smaller Stack Overflow 2010 data set if that is more convenient. It can be downloaded at the same link.

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