Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We’ll note how some of the Linux parameter settings used OS tuning may vary according to different system types: physical, virtual or cloud. A Look at MyRocks Performance. AMD EPYC Performance Testing… or Don’t get on the wrong side of SystemD. Tuning PostgreSQL Database Parameters to Optimize Performance.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . Error in Virtual User 1: mysqlexec/db server: Table 'mysql.proc' doesn't exist.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. See the article for more details. SQL Server 7.0

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40