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HammerDB v4.10 New Features: Purge and Write back for MariaDB TPROC-C

HammerDB

Many of the HammerDB TPROC-C workloads have included features to prevent the database doing maintenance tasks for the previous run whilst another run is taking place. This is particularly important when running automated workloads back-back to generate a performance profile for a progressively increasing number of virtual users.

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HammerDB v4.9 New Feature: Accelerate SQL Server builds with BCP

HammerDB

by @krithikasatish and @JoshInnis to provide accelerated load performance for both SQL Server TPROC-C and TPROC-H schemas. This earlier functionality has the advantage that there are no intermediate staging files required, and data is inserted into the database with multi-row inserts as soon as it is created.

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Why you should benchmark your database using stored procedures

HammerDB

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures. What is a stored procedure?

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Don’t Start Using Your MySQL Server Until You’ve Configured Your OS

Percona

Whenever you install your favorite MySQL server on a freshly created Ubuntu instance, you start by updating the configuration for MySQL, such as configuring buffer pool, changing the default datadir director, and disabling one of the most outstanding features – query cache. It’s a nice thing to do, but first things first.

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Using Huge Pages with PostgreSQL Running Inside Kubernetes

Percona

Modern servers operate with terabytes of RAM, and by default, processors work with virtual memory address translation for each 4KB page. OS maintains a huge list of allocated and free pages to make slow but reliable address translation from virtual to physical.

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HammerDB v4.0 New Features Pt1: TPROC-C & TPROC-H

HammerDB

compared to previous releases is that the workload names have changed from TPC-C and TPC-H to TPROC-C and TPROC-H respectively and therefore a key question is how are the v4.0 The simple answer is nothing, the workloads are exactly the same workloads derived from the TPC-C and TPC-H specifications and HammerDB v4.0

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Transparent Huge Pages Refresher

Percona

While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. In this post, we will explore THP, its impact on database servers, and how to disable it for optimal performance and stability. What are Transparent Huge Pages? In this case, THP is enabled.