Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself. Is MongoDB free to use?

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 11, 2021

One is using a function called DATE_BUCKET , which at the time of writing is only available in Azure SQL Edge. Another is using a custom calculation that emulates the DATE_BUCKET function, which you can use in any version, edition, and flavor of SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. DATE_BUCKET. Emulating DATE_BUCKET.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 28, 2018

Note: SQL Server can be a client using a linked server, allowing SQL Server to become an APP and/or an RM ). The application then uses the SQL Server client (SQL Server ODBC for this example) to establish a TDS based connection to the target SQL Server (local or remote.). Local Host Name. The olehlp!

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 27, 2016

To some of you SQL Server On Linux is old news from various announcements made a couple of months ago. Yes, SQL Server runs on Linux! It was Jan 2015, in my previous supportability role, that I started looking at SQL Server on Linux. I proceeded to install an Ubuntu VM and the internal build of SQL Server on Linux.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 14, 2019

SQL Server 2016 introduces the batch-mode Window Aggregate operator, which removes the performance penalty part of the pitfall, but prior to SQL Server 2019 this operator is used only if you have a columnstore index present on the data. This would have resulted in quadratic, or N 2 , complexity.

Best Practices 108

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. The Back Story.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

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.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. The pricing details for the East US region are here , as an example.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With Luminary’s 21 years of experience in the digital space, my experience of 17 years in the CMS space as well as our focus on Headless since 2016, here are my two cents on what you should look out for. Similarly, when it comes to procuring infrastructure, you can choose to host your site on Netlify, Azure, GCP or AWS. Omnichannel.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Despite the fanfare, therefore, AWS is still behind Microsoft Azure Functions when it comes to debug tooling. without web app servers?—?to There have been some improvements since re:Invent 2016 but to see nothing announced at this re:Invent was very disappointing. to a massively distributed CDN network a possibility.

Serverless 40

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SQL Performance

MAY 7, 2019

I’m going to introduce you to wait statistics and explain how critical they are for troubleshooting workload performance in SQL Server. The execution of SQL Server’s internal code is done using a mechanism called threads. When that happens, SQL Server makes a note of why the thread had to wait and this is called the wait type.

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