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. Statistics.

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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.

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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. “.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 5, 2019

One of the more perplexing problems to troubleshoot in SQL Server can be those related to memory grants. Some queries need more memory than others to execute, based on what operations need to be performed (e.g. EXEC [ Sales ] [ usp_OrderInfo_OrderDate ] '2016-01-01' , '2016-06-30' ; GO. sort, hash).

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon. So, what has changed my mind?

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KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

It's our mission to continuously improve web performance and each POP contributes to it. With Tel Aviv being the technology capital of Israel, it's the ideal edge server location. Performance report Brisbane - Australia Brisbane is our 4th POP in Australia. The new POP ensures better performance along the East Coast.

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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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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Here’s the thing: performance is more than a one-off task. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? Generally speaking, we can also run the top command on any server to which we have shell access.

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

In this article, we will look at how this can improve the reporting/analytical query performance in MySQL. I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 Aurora Parallel Query response time (for queries which can not use indexes) can be 5x-10x better compared to the non-parallel fully cached operations. MySQL on ec2.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 26, 2017

My goal is to resolve mysteries about SQL Server I encounter but do this without going straight the source code first. The first case that helped me start this journey was asked by a MVP within the SQL Server community (his first name starts with Joey<g>). The question went something like this….

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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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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.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

With Bucharest being the capital and largest city of Romania, it makes for a great edge server location. However, now with the Bucharest edge server in production, it helps further close the gap between visitors who live in Romania and the nearest KeyCDN POP they have access to. As of 2016, Bucharest alone had a population of over 1.83

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

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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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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

With Helsinki being the capital and most populous municipality of Finland, it makes for a great edge server location. However, now with the Helsinki edge server in production, this helps further close the gap between visitors who live in Finland and the nearest KeyCDN POP they have access to. As of 2016, there were just over 5.1

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SQL Performance

APRIL 20, 2021

This is the third in a five-part series taking a deep dive into the way SQL Server row mode parallel plans start executing. We are now ready to start the query scan, perform some early phase processing, and start the first additional parallel tasks. SQL Server could have been designed to start all the extra parallel bits all at once.

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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. The L3 cache size is 64MB. The L3 cache size is 64MB. AMD EPYC 7551 Details.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. How are you monitoring end-user performance today? Rigor’s free performance report. STEP 2: Use Synthetic Monitoring to Baseline Your Current Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In recent years, the industry thankfully started paying more attention to performance. As a result, website performance can suffer. Improving performance with the decoupled JSON approach. on December 6th, 2016. Improving Performance With The Decoupled JSON Approach. Working with the default WordPress REST API.

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Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Either way, redirection increases the amount of time it takes for your site to render, and you should minimize its use to optimize page performance. Redirection increases the amount of time it takes for your site to render, and you should minimize its use to optimize page performance. webperf #perfmatters Click To Tweet.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Developers are already optimizing front end performance with: Fast web hosting. Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. After all, Opens Sans is a Google Font that has to be served from Google’s servers.

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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In September of 2016 we started noticing random failures when building Chrome – 3 out of 200 builds of Chrome failed when protoc.exe, one of the executables that is part of the build, crashed with an access violation. This was starting to look like a Windows file cache bug. Or did we just get lucky or oblivious?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

An API is the communication channel for an application to load data from the server. This relationship can be expressed through an associative array (an array of key => property) on the server-side, in which each module states its name as the key attribute and its inner modules under the property modules. Large preview ).

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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. But beware of circular references to content which could cause headaches and performance issues. Microservices architecture.

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