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Percona Toolkit – A Quick Introduction to Summary

Percona

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. And did I mention they are open source?!

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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

Percona

Encrypting data at rest in a database management system (DBMS) refers to securing data by encrypting it when it is not being used or accessed. TDE can be applied at various levels, such as at the database, column, or cell level, depending on the organization’s specific security needs. Database-level encryption.

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Tune Linux Kernel Parameters For PostgreSQL Optimization

Percona

For optimum performance, a PostgreSQL database depends on the operating system parameters being defined correctly. Poorly configured OS kernel parameters can cause degradation in database server performance. PostgreSQL uses System V (SysV) that requires SHMMAX setting. SHMMAX / SHMALL. Until version 9.2,

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SQL Server on Linux: Scatter/Gather == Vectored I/O

SQL Server According to Bob

Scatter/gather capabilities allow more efficient memory to disk transfers reducing redundant memory copies, sorting and other activities applications may require to gain improved I/O performance. On Linux the total number of buffers that can be read or written, in a single ABI request, is capped at 2048.

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Data Redundancy With the PostgreSQL Citus Extension

Percona

Reference tables can be replicated to all nodes for joins and foreign keys from distributed tables and for maximum read performance. Data redundancy, a database version of a RAID Pondering the case of high availability and redundancy, one replicates data by creating a replica via streaming replication. citus_columnar | 11.1-1

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Configuring PostgreSQL and LDAP Using StartTLS

Percona

Although the installation of LDAP includes setting the password, which will be admin, by executing the following command, one can reset the password at will: # Select "No" when asked to configure the database with dbconfig-common. # Set the domain name for your LDAP server, for example, "example.com". #

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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