All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

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All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM. Databases are one particular area that for scaling can benefit tremendously from high performance I/O. The I/O requirements of database engines, regardless whether they are Relational or Non-Relation (NoSQL) DBMSâ??s All Things Distributed. Expanding The Cloud â?? Comments ().

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 14 September 2012 05:00 PM. That goes especially for the interaction between applications and storage engines, and between applications and databases. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-the-Future Weekend Reading - CryptDB. Comments ().

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 12, 2016

For SQL Server 2008, 2012 and 2014 the trace flag behavior remains the same. Trace flag 2549 is used to change how DBCC sees the volume layout of the database. Trace flags 2562 and 2549 are documented in knowledgebase article: [link] and the blog post [link] highlights the SQL 2016 DBCC performance improvements.

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But dbid is unreliable and marginally useful anyway, particularly for cross-database queries; there's much better info in sys.dm_tran_locks. An excuse I used to hear a lot was that sys.dm_exec_sessions was missing open_tran , but open_transaction_count was added back in SQL Server 2012. Sure, sys.sysprocesses has dbid and waittime.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. One of the services that is very successful in driving innovation at our customers in this context is Amazon RDS , the Relational Database Service. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). hands freeÃ? and took near zero development effort.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Today, to accomplish this, developers are forced to write complicated infrastructure that typically involves message queues and databases along with complex logic to synchronize them. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. For example, AWS customers use SQS for asynchronous communication pipelines, buffer queues for databases, asynchronous work queues, and moving latency out of highly responsive requests paths. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. Amazon Glacier integrates seamlessly with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 and the different AWS Database services. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

The following chart shows the same 1TB database testing. Use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or your favorite query editor to connect to a SQL Server 2012 or 2014 instance. MultiObjectScanner = Older design. CheckScanner = New design. The DBCC CheckDB demonstration loads a table and demonstrates the performance improvement.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

In 2012, Gartner coined the term RASP to characterize this approach, which brings the security perimeter right to the application itself. Runtime application self-protection is a security design pattern for embedding web application protection directly into an application or application runtime environment.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

Why should a relational database even care about unstructured data? Wave 1: PostgreSQL 9.2 (2012) added support for JSON data type. JSON database in 9.2 It is useful to validate incoming JSON and store in the database. B-tree indexes are the most common index type in relational databases. JSONB Data Structures.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2019

The following demo script should be run on a development instance in a new test database set to use the SIMPLE recovery model. For SQL Server 2012 and earlier , the transition point for this particular table is 898 rows. The thresholds are not dependent on the Cardinality Estimation model in use or the database compatibility level.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

By 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article by Thomas Davenport and D.J. Sharding and partitioning the database affords greater performance and distribution but creates complexity that is difficult to manage. Patil called " Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century." Machiavelli, The Art of War.

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SQL Performance

JULY 11, 2019

Connecting to SQL Server 2012 or better, or Azure SQL Database. And recommended system configuration: Two or more cores 8GB or more of memory Operating Systems: Windows (8.1 / Server 2012 R2 or better) macOS (10.13 First, ensure you meet our requirements: Azure Data Studio 1.9.0 or newer ( July announcement post ).NET

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SQL Performance

MAY 20, 2022

As in previous parts, most code examples use the Stack Overflow 2010 database on SQL Server 2019 CU 16 with the following additional nonclustered index: CREATE INDEX [ IX dbo. Names of tables and columns haven’t been resolved to database objects yet, and no type information is available. EXECUTE sys. sp_configure. EXECUTE sys.

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Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2012 and was updated in June 2023. A full backup is a comprehensive data backup strategy that involves creating a complete, exact copy of all data and files in a database. In order to implement effective full backups of your database, you must follow some best practices.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 18, 2022

Let’s look at some examples using the Stack Overflow 2010 database on SQL Server 2019 CU 14, with database compatibility set to 150. You must enable the query store feature for the database context where the statement is executed and the OPERATION_MODE must be set to READ_WRITE , allowing the query store to actively collect data.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. ve already passed our 2012 targets. Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug. Comments (). In short, DynamoDB is taking off.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. DynamoDB stores information as database tables, which are collections of individual items.

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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.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. Unlike traditional row-based relational databases, which store data for each row sequentially on disk, Amazon Redshift stores each column sequentially. This means that Redshift performs much less wasted IO than a row-based database because it doesnâ??t Expanding the Cloud â??

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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. Let’s look at an example, using the Stack Overflow 2010 database on SQL Server 2019 CU 14. ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION. Simple Parameterization. sp_configure.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. As we said at the time, DynamoDB was a result of 15 years of learning in the area of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage. Fully managed cache for DynamoDB.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 15, 2019

Connecting to SQL Server 2012 or better, or Azure SQL Database. And recommended system configuration: Two or more cores 8GB or more of memory Operating Systems: Windows (8.1 / Server 2012 R2 or better) macOS (10.13 First, ensure you meet our requirements: Azure Data Studio 1.9.0 or newer ( July announcement post ).NET

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

When a new app server instance starts, OpsWorks will use built-in recipes to configure the app server software and deploy your apps, and can also apply your specified recipes to make changes to your database and monitoring infrastructure. Operational Control â?? Automate tasks. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The original Dynamo paper inspired many database solutions, which are now popularly referred to as NoSQL databases. These databases trade off complex querying capabilities and consistency for scale and availability. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. Do you think you can setup a hypervisor to do that with LinuxCon EU and also published by George Dunlap on xenproject.org in 2012, which I developed further here in 2014, and now Lars is updating it on xen.org.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). Direct seeding of new database replicas. Increased number of auto-failover targets.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

“SQL Server 2016 running on the same hardware as SQL Server 2014, 2012, 2008, 2008 R2 or 2005 uses fewer resources and executes a wide range of workloads faster. SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: -T1117 and -T1118 changes for TEMPDB and user databases. SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: In-Memory Optimized Database Worker Pool.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

UPDATE: September 2nd, 2021 (Originally published July 26th, 2012.). A lot of things change over the course of a few major versions of our favorite database platform. Here are the contenders I am going to compare (using SQL Server 2012, 11.00.2316, on a Windows 7 VM with 4 CPUs and 8 GB of RAM): CLR. CREATE FUNCTION dbo.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. If those specs sound eerily familiar, it's perhaps because they're identical to 2016's $200USD Moto G4 , all the way down to the 2011-vintage 28nm SoC process node used to fab the chip's anemic, 2012-vintage A53 cores. Tap for a larger version.

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