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. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. GB per vCore.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

Azure 37

Azure Cloud Open Source Virtualization 37

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. Traditional data warehouse systems are largely based on shared-nothing designs: persistent data is partitioned across a set of nodes, each responsible for its local data. From shared-nothing to disaggregation.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions.

Azure 23

Azure Cloud Open Source Cache 23

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. I’d been testing on a virtual machine in a data center that I had access to, purely because this machine has an internet connection that runs at over 2 Gbps. It looks like this can happen. Case closed.

Cache 105

Cache Energy Google Processing 105

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. 4 Socket, TPCC.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. Data loss can be detrimental to an organization. Working with and having to tell customers that they've lost data is never fun or easy. SQL Server Agent alerts.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

As more computing resources are needed to handle a growing workload, virtual servers (also called cloud “ instances ”) can be added to take up the slack. Like the applications they serve, IMDGs are deployed as a cluster of cloud-hosted virtual servers that scales as the workload demands. IMDGs Help Scale Applications.

Cloud 40

Cloud Azure Virtualization Scalability 40

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

As more computing resources are needed to handle a growing workload, virtual servers (also called cloud “ instances ”) can be added to take up the slack. Like the applications they serve, IMDGs are deployed as a cluster of cloud-hosted virtual servers that scales as the workload demands. IMDGs Help Scale Applications.

Cloud 40

Cloud Azure Virtualization Scalability 40