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.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? 2019 Top Databases Used. So, which databases are most popular in 2019? Popular examples of commercial databases include Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2. What are the Top Open Source Databases in 2019?

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Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. It would be nice if SQL Server could push the aggregation down into the scan and just return distinct values from the column store directly.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

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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Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. 264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. AOM has produced the reference software for AV1, which is called libaom and is available online.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux. Host-performance measures.

Availability 31

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 31

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Many of the newer features we have in SQL Server were initially launched in Azure SQL Database, including (but not limited to) Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, Row Level Security, and Query Store. Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. DTU Pricing Tier. GB per vCore.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

SQL Server 2014 SP2 and later produce runtime (“actual”) execution plans that can include elapsed time and CPU usage for each execution plan operator (see KB3170113 and this blog post by Pedro Lopes). SQL Server makes some timing adjustments in parallel plans to promote consistency, but they are not perfectly implemented. TheYear , CA.

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Processing 95

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

We’re happy to announce the Early Adopter Release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux (available with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174). For details on available metrics, see our help page on host performance monitoring.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. These factors meant that often when looking for database performance information, the results for a particular combination of software and hardware were not available. What is HammerDB? Adoption by the TPC.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Speaking of Android OS, in 2019, there were around 2.5 Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. You need strong and reliable servers to manage mobile devices and execute test scripts. You need strong and reliable servers to manage mobile devices and execute test scripts.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 In the radio portion of the network, 5G buffer sizes are 5x 4G, but within the wired portion of the network only about 2.5x (this is with a 1000 Mbps provisioned cloud server). km university campus.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. India has been the epicentre of smartphone growth in recent years, owing to the sheer size of its market and an accelerating shift away from feature phones which made up the majority of Indian mobile devices until as late as 2019. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Hard Reset.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Jack Lenox.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. This knowledge will give you the best optimization target for ongoing efforts. What does it mean?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. What does it mean?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. Historically MySQL has been positioned for supporting web-based applications this is in contrast to enterprise based database workloads that have been served by commercial databases such as Oracle, Db2 and SQL Server.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. This mode is still available but take up from busy service teams was limited. Automating chaos experiments in production Basiri et al., Defining and running experiments.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 This is crucial due to mobile devices requiring additional optimizations because they typically have less powerful hardware and a slower network connection when compared to desktop devices. The PHP library for the API is available on GitHub.

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). The share of adoption for the 12-month period between January of 2019 and January of 2020 likewise suggests that microservices remains a topic of interest to O’Reilly users.

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Database Architecture Education Systems 135