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The Performance Golden Rule Revisited

Tim Kadlec

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. Performance conversations were dominated by discussions around the server-side aspects of performance.

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Common SQL Server Mishaps

SQL Performance

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. This situation applies to on-premises SQL Server and IaaS. Statistics.

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Simple Parameterization and Trivial Plans — Part 1

SQL Performance

In this first part, after a quick introduction, I look at the effects of simple parameterization on the plan cache. It's almost always better to explicitly parameterize statements, rather than relying on the server to do it. The aim is to reduce compilations by increasing cached plan reuse. Simple Parameterization. Shell Plans.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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.

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AppFabric Caching: Retry Later

ScaleOut Software

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. Given all this, we thought it would be a good opportunity to see how we are doing relative to the competition, and in particular, relative to Microsoft’s AppFabric caching for Windows on-premise servers.

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Minimal Logging with INSERT…SELECT into Empty Clustered Tables

SQL Performance

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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Notes on: Married to HTTP/3

Tim Kadlec

HTTP/3 work started in 2012 with Google working on QUIC, adopted by IETF in 2017, RFC’s published in June 2022. No server push! The RSVP problem: HTTP/3 might be blocked on the network or may not be enabled on the server. So the browser will only try HTTP/3 if it’s certain the server supports it. What and Why?

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