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 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. Question: What if I change the time of the system clock?

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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. This means data can be stored in file system cache, non-stable media. ) Assume the database application opens the backup file, allowing file system caching (~_O_DIRECT.)

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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 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. I was a bit perplexed by this issue, since the system was certainly no slouch — plenty of cores, 3TB of memory, and XtremIO storage. Change the Target Recovery Time of a Database. ADD EVENT sqlserver.

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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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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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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. “. “Be

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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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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. The first was c3. 0% performance overhead.

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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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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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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. The first was c3. 0% performance overhead.

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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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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 Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.". Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waiting queries mean waiting applications and users, and no one likes to wait!

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Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications. A Query Execution Plan is the way a database chooses to run a specific query. This system variable enables control over optimizer behavior. The global default can be set at server startup.

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SQL Performance

MAY 13, 2020

In my examples I'll use a sample database called TSQLV5. A persistent base table is either a regular persistent base table or a system-versioned table. ORDER BY val DESC ) AS D ; When I ran this query on my system, it generated the following output: orderid val --. Derived tables. Base tables. OrderValues. 10865 16387.50

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time!

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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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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem. While ultimately this new system should be able to take advantage of the latest advances in consensus for improved performance, that’s not realistic given a 6-9 month in-production target. replacing Paxos with Raft), or they could be shims over external storage systems.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Sharding is a preferred approach for database systems facing substantial growth and needing high availability.

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Particular Software

MARCH 15, 2021

As popular as NoSQL databases have become, you’d be hard-pressed to find a successful business that isn’t running some flavor of SQL somewhere. For NServiceBus systems, our SQL Persistence package allows you to use whatever flavor of SQL works best for you, supporting dialects for Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 10, 2018

SQL Server Books Online documents Instant File Initialization and the associated security considerations. This blog highlights the underlying file system implementations and differences in behavior between Windows and Linux. SQL Server performs the following API calls when creating or extending (growing) data and log files.

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SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2020

In my examples I’ll use sample databases called TSQLV5 and PerformanceV5. I should stress that in practice, there’s no actual process in which SQL Server converts the original query string with the nested logic to a new query string without the nesting. In Part 3 I started covering optimization considerations of derived tables.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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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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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 1, 2017

At re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Time Sync Service which provides a highly accurate and reliable global time reference. TrueTime was introduced to support Spanner - Google’s globally distributed, and synchronously-replicated database. Spanner: Google’s Globally Distributed Database ??.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time!

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

It can pretend to be an operating system. It’s clear that ChatGPT is not your run-of-the-mill automated chat server. All of these models are based on a technology called Transformers , which was invented by Google Research and Google Brain in 2017. That’s a question the legal system has yet to rule on. It’s much more.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 13, 2017

that of the ability to overwhelm downstream systems with unfettered load?—?got got a lot smoother at re:Invent 2017. A thousand-times scaled Lambda could easily cause significant performance problems to a modest SQL database server. Enter Reserved Concurrency At re:Invent 2017 the Lambda team announced a new feature?—?

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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

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. Introduction. instructions are available.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

A lot of things change over the course of a few major versions of our favorite database platform. SQL Server 2016 brought us STRING_SPLIT , a native function that eliminates the need for many of the custom solutions we’ve needed before. STRING_SPLIT() in SQL Server 2016 : Follow-Up #1. It’s fast, too, but it’s not perfect.

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