SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2021

I want to talk about UI design choices that lead to data access patterns that are awkward to implement using SQL Server. It’s also a good way to not overwhelm the database servers … usually. Meanwhile, the search results are missing articles that only mention Algebra or Trigonometry. Sort By Column. Paged Results.

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SQL Shack

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In this article, we will learn the SQL Server clustered index concept and some internal details. Indexes are the database objects that accelerate the performance of data accessing when are designed properly.

Servers 86

Servers Database Design Performance 86

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This article is to simply report the YCSB bench test results in detail for five NoSQL databases namely Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, Yugabyte and BangDB and compare the result side by side. I have used latest versions for each NoSQL DB and have followed the recommendations to run all the databases in optimized conditions.

Benchmarking 308

Benchmarking Latency C++ Database 308

SQL Shack

APRIL 21, 2021

This article will describe the effect of SQL Server foreign keys on query plans which are created by the query optimizer. Introduction Foreign keys are used to enforce the referential integrity between the data of the two tables and are frequently used in relational database designs.

Servers 71

Servers Database Design Performance 71

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

Best Practices 52

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. The performance of a PostgreSQL database has a significant impact on the overall effectiveness of an application.

Tuning 52

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

SQL Shack

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This is in continuation of the previous articles How to monitor internal data structures of SQL Server In-Memory database objects and SQL Server In-Memory database internal memory structure monitoring. This article describes the concepts of In-memory-optimization and design principles.

Servers 68

Servers Database Monitoring Design 68

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

Artificial Intelligence 147

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

What the software has been designed to log is what we get. When exploiting the vulnerability, attackers can gain remote code injection capabilities in the MOVEit server and modify or steal sensitive data from its database. The problem with the IIS server access logs was the headers.

Database 156

Database Government Games Servers 156

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure.

Cloud 130

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. PostgreSQL is the fourth most popular database management system in the world, and heavily used in all sizes of applications from small to large. Why Use a GUI Tool? pgAdmin uses too many resources.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimates vary, but most reports put the average cost of unplanned database downtime at approximately $300,000 to $500,000 per hour, or $5,000 to $8,000 per minute. With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have.

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. HyperScale Database. Hyperscale databases are provisioned using vCores. DTU Pricing Tier.

Azure 55

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The auto-increment feature, which generates unique values for primary key columns, is an integral part of the database’s design. this enhancement ensures that the maximum auto-increment counter value persists between server restarts, providing enhanced consistency and reliability in data management. Compared to MySQL 5.7,

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SQL Performance

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For more background on these performance spools see my prior article. If you’re interested in table-valued function rewinds, please see my Q & A on Database Administrators Stack Exchange. With those out of the way, this article is exclusively about Sorts and when they can rewind. The post When Do SQL Server Sorts Rewind?

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. Data Placement. System Coordination. Read/Write latency.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Kubernetes Dashboard as a part of a comprehensive monitoring solution This article introduces the key building blocks to consider when designing your Kubernetes monitoring solution. After applying the first manifests (which are likely copied and pasted from a how-to tutorial ), a web server is up and running within minutes.

Virtualization 160

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 160

SQL Performance

APRIL 17, 2020

When we ask SQL Server to change some aspect of a column's definition, it needs to check that the existing data is compatible with the new definition. Depending on the type of change and the configuration of the database, an ALTER COLUMN command will need to perform one of the following actions: Change metadata in system tables only.

Servers 63

Servers Database Testing Efficiency 63

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Following the series of blogs started by Peter Zaitsev in Installing MySQL with Docker , on deploying Docker containers running open source databases, in this article, I’ll demonstrate how to install and run PostgreSQL using Docker. ” We intend to show how to bring up PostgreSQL instance(s) into Docker containers.

Database 71

Database Open Source Scalability Virtualization 71

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. This includes servers, applications, software platforms, and websites. What does it take to secure your cloud assets effectively?

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

This article delivers direct insights on solid security frameworks, agile defensive tactics, and compliance adherence, providing the blueprint to reinforce your enterprise against the rigors of the cloud. This ensures the highest level of protection for data stored in these databases on the cloud.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. First, some stage-setting for this blog article. The popularity of MongoDB MongoDB has emerged as a popular database platform. It ranks No.

Open Source 77

Open Source Database Scalability Software 77

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Managing vast datasets effectively is an essential requirement for modern applications, and MongoDB , a leading NoSQL database, offers robust solutions for this requirement. Pagination is beneficial in splitting such collections of information, including products, users, articles, etc., So in effect, our page size is 10. The result?

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Efficiency Strategy Speed 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. For example, an application could use on-premises databases while also having access to ‘cloud bursting’ capabilities during times of high demand.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. Configuration testing is performed on a system that is consecutively set up using various combinations of configured hardware and software designed to deliver a specific functionality.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. It is important to pay attention to performance when writing database queries. PostgreSQL’s Tuneable Parameters. shared_buffer.

Tuning 57

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 57

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. MySQL, as well as other RDBMS, are designed to work respecting the model and cannot scale in any way by fragmenting and distributing a schema, so what can be done to scale?

Traffic 125

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Following the series of blogs written with the intention to describe basic operations matching Docker and open source databases, in this article, I will demonstrate how to proceed with installing MongoDB with Docker. I wrote this article based on the Docker-maintained repository. What are MongoDB Docker Containers?

Scalability 60

Scalability Best Practices Servers Database 60

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

Recently, we performed a database engine major version upgrade in one of our customers’ environments from MySQL 5.7.26 In this article, I will explain these issues in detail and recommend a way to take backups from a replication environment. To begin with, we upgraded all the database nodes from 5.7.26 With MySQL 5.7,

Database 75

Database Servers Open Source Engineering 75

Percona

OCTOBER 17, 2023

From that, this article is born. When multiple operations, such as reads and writes, attempt to access the database concurrently, WiredTiger uses tickets to ensure these operations do not conflict in a way that would compromise data integrity or performance. Bounce the database, replacing the binaries with the older release.

Metrics 104

Metrics C++ Storage Database 104

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. In this article, we’ll explore some of the ways that we as individuals can use our skills to have a positive environmental impact within a digital organization. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. More after jump! Get Organized.

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