SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 24, 2018

I also started my career developing on UNIX systems with C++ and databases like Ingres. When I joined Microsoft in 1993, I would embark on a 25 year journey working only on Windows laptops and Windows Server computers. Last October we released SQL Server 2017 including support for Linux and Docker Containers.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). MariaDB Server, on the other hand, is a fork of MySQL 5.5. What is MariaDB? Enhanced security is another advantage MariaDB.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

. · Failures occur from remote clients or sqlcmd executed directory on the server (/opt/mssql-tools/bin). SQL Server 2017 CU10 does not show behavior. · SQL Server 2017 CU12 exhibits the behavior. Server is a Superdome with lots of CPUs and RAM. Here is an example of a valid SQL Server login.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In my examples, I'll use a sample database called TSQLV5. You can find the script that creates and populates this database here , and its ER diagram here. Suppose for example that you want to query the Sales.Orders table in the TSQLV5 sample database. Implicit grouping with PIVOT. 830 rows affected).

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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.

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SQL Performance

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In my examples I'll use a sample database called TSQLV5. You can find the script that creates and populates this database here , and its ER diagram here. The EOMONTH function was introduced in SQL Server 2012. SQL Server 2017 introduced support for the function TRIM. SQL Server 2012 introduced the function CONCAT.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Prior to SQL Server 2017 CU4 for Linux (Linux only) the generation of a sequential UUID may not function as expected. SQL Server’s NewSequentialId () calls the Windows API UuidCreateSequential , which is limited in SQLPAL, prior to the CU 4 update. Server B may be generating uuids that sort before those from Server A.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 11, 2021

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. In my examples, I’ll use the sample database TSQLV5. An event that took place on July 14 th , 2018 belongs to fiscal year 2017. 2017 343 495118.14

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Even among people who do have a good grasp of relational theory and SQL, you will hear very strong opinions both in favor and against using NULLs in your database. In my examples I'll use a sample database called TSQLV5. You can find the script that creates and populates this database here , and its ER diagram here.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I was asked to validate the SQL Server behavior in light of the error condition involving fsync/fdatasync outlined in this article. Assume the database application opens the backup file, allowing file system caching (~_O_DIRECT.) SQL Server does NOT do this, in fact I made sure SQL Server on Linux does not allow this to occur.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 17, 2018

When starting SQL Server on Linux why are there two (2) sqlservr processes? systemctl status mssql-server mssql-server.service – Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine … CGroup: /system.slice/mssql-server.service ??85829 Bob Dorr – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Microsoft engineering is actually sending quite a few folks over the Atlantic to come talk about SQL Server 2017, SQL Server on Linux, GDPR, Performance, Security, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure CosmosDB. Pedro makes it his mission to help customers with SQL Server Performance.

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

I'll continue using the sample database TSQLV5 like last month in some of my examples. You can find the script that creates and populates this database here , and its ER diagram here. 10249 2017-07-10 10252 2017-07-11 10250 2017-07-12. DISTINCT predicate. 11063 2019-05-06 11067 2019-05-06 11069 2019-05-06.

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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. SQL Server’s optimizer estimates how much memory is needed, and the query must obtain the memory grant in order to start executing. ALTER DATABASE [ WideWorldImporters ] SET QUERY_STORE = ON ; GO. sort, hash).

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SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2020

In a recent tip , I described a scenario where a SQL Server 2016 instance seemed to be struggling with checkpoint times. Still, if you stack a bunch of high-transaction databases on there, checkpoint processing can get pretty sluggish. A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (15/30) checkpoint only writes pages from committed transactions.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. I will be using the 50GB Stack Overflow 2013 database , but any large table with a low number of distinct values would do. The Stack Overflow 2013 database comes without nonclustered indexes to minimize download time. Test Environment.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 28, 2018

Resource Manager – Database, File System, with ACID capabilities. Note: SQL Server can be a client using a linked server, allowing SQL Server to become an APP and/or an RM ). Once the connection to SQL Server is established the APP executes the odbc! Microsoft specific implementation for DTC using (OLE-TX).

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SQL Performance

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The SQL Server query optimizer makes use of statistics during query compilation to help determine the optimal query plan. There’s a lot of debate in the SQL Server community around whether to enable asynchronous statistics updates. Most preemptive waits are when a thread makes a call outside of SQL Server (e.g., Introduction.

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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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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

How fast is the average time to first byte (server delay)? In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. How long is the average server delay? It is typically reduced via server-side optimizations, such as enabling caching and database indexes. How fast is the average page load time in 2020?

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. Xen AWS 2017 In 2015, AWS launched c4, which used hardware virtualization for EBS volumes. This finally came to storage-optimized instance types in 2017 with the [i3 instance type], which used SR-IOV and the nvme storage driver.

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Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. 38% of all sites measured in Sept 2017 (~500K) are more than 75% 3rd party content. The Rise of Cloud Computing.

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Particular Software

AUGUST 8, 2017

The new persister supports multiple database engines and uses raw ADO.NET and native SQL queries, without the need for an intermediate ORM. Up until now, our primary method of persisting data in relational databases used NHibernate, which was making it impossible to realize those dreams.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

during the 2017-18 academic year, on top of a 3.3% ” @emileifrem : Adobe used 125 MongoDB servers to run their activity feed. It was replaced by 48 Cassandra servers. servers of Neo4j. The scalability of a native graph database. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. decline the year before.".

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Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

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SQL Performance

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In my examples I’ll continue using the sample databases TSQLV5 and PerformanceV5. The issue is that even though SQL Server does support a short circuit concept at the physical processing level, there’s no assurance that it will evaluate the filter predicates in written order from left to right. Substitution/unnesting.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. Xen AWS 2017 In 2015, AWS launched c4, which used hardware virtualization for EBS volumes. This finally came to storage-optimized instance types in 2017 with the [i3 instance type], which used SR-IOV and the nvme storage driver.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

We also recommend using a free program like KeePass or KeePassX which allow you to generate secure passwords and store them in a database locally on your computer. Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities.

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Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2017 and was updated in August 2023. MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. Set the server-id to a unique value. Start the replica server’s replication process.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 11, 2017

SQL Server 2019 CTP2. SQL Server 2019 adds broad support for distributed transactions (both MSDTC/OLE-TX and XA) to SQL Server on Linux. You can establish and use transactions between Linux and Linux or Linux and Windows instances of SQL Server or your application. Configuring MSDTC for SQL Server on Linux: [link].

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

​​​​ A utility would issue the dbcc freeze to stop the I/O activity for the database. ​​ When the utility attempted to issue the thaw command the command would be queued, and the database could not return to an operational state until SQL Server was restarted.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

without web app servers?—?to Serverless Aurora promises to be the SQL Database to partner with Lambda that we’ve been hoping for. It’s still in early access, so no concrete news to report here, but a lot of people will be happy to be able to use a SQL database that has the operational properties of DynamoDB. We’re the experts!

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SQL Performance

JULY 9, 2019

I posted a suggestion to improve SQL Server by adding support for nested window functions. For example, suppose that you want to query the Sales.OrderValues view in the TSQLV5 sample database, and return for each customer and order date, the daily total of the order values, and the running total until the current day. 2 2017-09-18 88.80

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

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SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge: [link]. With the announcement I can tell you more about one of the things we have been working on; SQL Server running on IoT Edge and Developer machines in under 500MB of memory. The effort focuses attention on memory usage and disk space requirements of SQL Server.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 8, 2020

I'll continue using the sample database TSQLV5 like last month in some of my examples. You can find the script that creates and populates this database here , and its ER diagram here. A much more elegant option is to use the CONCAT_WS function, which was introduced in SQL Server 2017. NULL treatment inconsistencies.

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