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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. Compare Ease of Use. So Which Is Best?

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Finding Distinct Values Quickly

SQL Performance

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. 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. Test Environment. The cost threshold for parallelism is set to 50. Final Thoughts.

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Updated Azure SQL Database Tier Options

SQL Performance

Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. Microsoft took that idea and built a new compute tier called Azure SQL Database serverless, which became generally available in November 2019. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier. GB per vCore.

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Understanding Execution Plan Operator Timings

SQL Performance

This can make it difficult to draw sound performance-tuning conclusions. They are run on SQL Server 2019 CU9 , on a laptop with 8 cores, and 16GB of memory allocated to the SQL Server 2019 instance. SQL Server makes some timing adjustments in parallel plans to promote consistency, but they are not perfectly implemented.

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How to maximize CPU performance for PostgreSQL 12.0 benchmarks on Linux

HammerDB

rc3-custom #1 SMP Mon Aug 12 14:07:33 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Welcome to Ubuntu 19.04 (GNU/Linux 5.3.0-rc3-custom hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware current CPU frequency: 1.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

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. Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph. But I'm not completely sure.

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OneAgent for Linux on IBM Z (General Availability)

Dynatrace

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.