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. The following chart shows the same 1TB database testing. SQL Server 2016. or newer release.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

Why not just create another database on the same instance? We split databases by function/team to give each team full autonomy over their schema, And if someone screws up, it breaks their cluster, not all databases. So you put multiple MySQL servers on a single machine instead of multiple databases inside one MySQL instance.

Programming 84

Programming Servers Database Hardware 84

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. I always check backups first when looking at a new system. When looking at backups, I check for recovery model and the current history of backups for each database. DBCC CHECKDB.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. First, we have a shift to centrally managed systems.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

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. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124