Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. A new record entering a database table. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda?

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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). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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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?

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Processed 4.15

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2019

The summary rows for heap tables without indexes are the same in both documents (no changes for SQL Server 2016): An explicit TABLOCK hint is not the only way to meet the requirement for table-level locking. The following demo script should be run on a development instance in a new test database set to use the SIMPLE recovery model.

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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. For SQL Server 2016 the trace flags are available but the behavior may be altered by the design changes. Trace flag 2549 is used to change how DBCC sees the volume layout of the database. This is behavior is unchanged in SQL Server 2016.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. This 14nm first-generation AMD EPYC 7551 processor has 32 cores and 64 threads, and it works in one or two-socket servers. Both of these Intel processors are special bespoke models that are not in the Intel ARK database.

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