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Why Choose a Third-Party Database Migration Service

Percona

Have you tuned your environment? What’s your documentation plan? This means they can ensure that every possible scenario is tested, from data integrity checks to performance benchmarks. Third-party services typically already have these tools and the expertise to use them, providing more efficient and accurate testing.

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What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter?

HammerDB

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

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Why MySQL Could Be Slow With Large Tables

Percona

In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL. You can refer to the documentation for further details. Redundant indexes: It is known that accessing rows by fetching an index is more efficient than through a table scan in most cases.

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The Ultimate Guide to MySQL Partitions

Percona

Various partition types, like RANGE, LIST, HASH, and KEY, are used for specific needs, from range-based data to custom criteria, to ensure efficient data handling and the optimization of queries. ensures that only relevant partitions are accessed, further enhancing query efficiency. Partition pruning, a feature in MySQL 5.7,

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A peculiar throughput limitation on Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing)

John McCalpin

Hardware performance counter results for a simple benchmark code calling Intel’s optimized DGEMM implementation for this processor (from the Intel MKL library) show that about 20% of the dynamic instruction count consists of instructions that are not packed SIMD operations (i.e.,

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Making Windows Slower Part 1: File Access

Randon ASCII

When you own all of the code then this may involve some back of the envelope estimates, competitive benchmarking, or intuition tuned by experience. Hey Microsoft – I’ve got a cool idea for how you can make file notifications more efficient. Here are the page faults by process and type: Why such large buffers?

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

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