SQL Performance

AUGUST 23, 2019

In traditional row-mode execution plans, SQL Server may introduce a Bitmap operator as part of performing early semi join reduction before a parallel hash or merge join. There have been major improvements since the first appearance of the batch mode execution engine in SQL Server 2012. Background. The Query Optimizer.

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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. Contact us to learn more!

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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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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. Since then, Microsoft has changed the naming of this series to Lsv2.

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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. Performance is competitive at around 15ms. Test Environment.

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). Charlie Demerjian : what does Intel have planned for their server roadmap? For the same reason the 14/10nm messaging is causing consternation among investors, but the server side is in much worse shape. How bad is it?

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Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2019

This is reflected in the summary tables included in the Data Loading Performance Guide and the Tiger Team post. 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.

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SQL Performance

MAY 16, 2019

Achieving minimal logging using INSERT.SELECT into an empty clustered index target is not quite as simple as described in the Data Performance Loading Guide. The Data Loading Performance Guide contains a high-level summary of the conditions required for minimal logging into clustered tables: This post is concerned with the top row only.

Cache 67

Cache Servers Testing Storage 67

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases. Ryan Stonecipher – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer. SQL Server. SQL Server.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

If you put your whole website on CDN, technically you don’t need a large number of server infrastructure and CMS licenses. They often get blindsided by vendor’s pitch and end-up making decision based on some fancy demos (see my post from 2014 on Adobe AEM ). Circa 2014, I was working with a big Japanese automotive brand in Australia.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 23, 2019

In SQL Server 2012, grouped (vector) aggregation was able to use parallel batch-mode execution, but only for the partial (per-thread) aggregate. SQL Server 2014 added the ability to perform parallel batch-mode grouped aggregation within a single Hash Match Aggregate operator. Columnstore storage. Introduction.

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SQL Performance

MAY 29, 2019

It can be activated from SQL Server 2008 to 2014 inclusive using documented trace flag 610. From SQL Server 2016 onward, FastLoadContext is enabled by default ; the trace flag is not required. For more background, see the Data Performance Loading Guide and the Tiger Team notes on the behaviour changes for SQL Server 2016.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I gave a talk about container performance recently at DockerCon, and included a quick summary of how they work: YouTube , SlideShare : If you search of slideshare and youtube, you'll find many other good talks on containers as well. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. People rarely create them manually.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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.

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

How It Works: XEvent Output and Visualization SQL Server Management Studio Provides–“XE Profiler” Use the SSMS XEvent Profiler. Using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and storing the events in a table requires reading the events, streaming to table storage followed by an order by event sequence query. TSQL Sample Session.

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

Kubernetes Secrets on public GitHub repos), misconfigured servers (e.g., Do configure your servers correctly, especially public Internet-facing ones. If we can get a 98% improvement and still have fully compatible interop with existing C++, that would be a holy grail worth serious investment. Don’t store secrets in code. (Or,

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

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. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

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