DZone

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Below are some of the key metrics that need to be monitored during performance testing: CPU utilization. Server page faults/second. Cache hit ratio. Let's take a look at some of the causes of negative impacts on performance testing and some quick resolutions that will help smooth everything out. Heap memory utilization.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 23, 2020

While its use and importance has decreased as the inbuilt replication options improved on PostgreSQL server side, this still remains a valuable option for older versions of PostgreSQL. Follow these steps to set up Pgpool-II, enable the connection pool services you need, and connect to your PostgreSQL server. At a glance. How it works.

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Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system many organizations use to store and manage their data. However, as the size of your database grows, it can become challenging to manage and optimize its performance. This can significantly improve query response times and reduce the load on your database servers.

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Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. Caches | 12.4G Caches | 12.4G

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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.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2020

If the script has already performed writes to the server and must still be killed, use the SHUTDOWN NOSAVE to shutdown the server completely. In fact, this discussion applies to any high availability system that depends on polling the Redis servers for health: Long-running scripts will initially block client commands.

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Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. The same tests have been executed in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

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HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

PgBouncer defines one pool per user+database combination. A client benefits from a pooled connection only if it connects to a child which has previously served a connection for this database+user combination. PgBouncer allows limiting connections per-pool, per-database, per-user or per-client. Performance Testing.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

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Percona

JUNE 15, 2023

Sometimes we might need to install/upgrade Percona Server for MySQL /MySQL 8 to a particular version in a test or production environment. Install Percona Server for MySQL 8 specific version packages via repository. Download specific Percona Server for MySQL 8 tarball packages and install them manually. bullseye amd64 1.7

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

These include improving API traffic management and caching mechanisms to reduce server and network load, optimizing database queries, and adding additional compute resources, just to name some. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing.

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Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2022

ProxySQL is a very useful tool for gaining high availability, load balancing, query routing, query caching, query rewriting, multiplexing, and data masking. There can be an instance of ProxySQL using a lot of memory on the server. This post is related to one of the causes that can use memory on the ProxySQL server and how we handle it.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. PMM monitors the MySQL uptime: show global status like 'uptime'; Indicates the amount of time (seconds) the MySQL server has been running since the last restart.

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Percona

JULY 25, 2023

The data is internally inconsistent because the server concurrently modifies the data files while they are being copied. Percona XtraBackup performs crash recovery on the files to make a consistent, usable database again. The redo apply phase wouldn’t make the database consistent with respect to a transaction.

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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. “. 4 Socket, TPCC.

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Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

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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. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL server performance can sometimes be perplexing, and if you’ve ever wondered about the role of triggers in influencing your MySQL server’s memory allocation, this post is for you. A Trigger in MySQL is a database object that plays a pivotal role in database management. What is a Trigger in MySQL?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing. They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 29, 2022

Simple parameterization has a number of quirks in this area, which can result in more parameterized plans being cached than expected, or finding different results compared with the unparameterized version. When SQL Server applies simple parameterization to an ad-hoc statement, it makes a guess about the data type of the replacement parameter.

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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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Percona

APRIL 3, 2023

SET WITHOUT OIDS; A list of tables with the problem is in the file: tables_with_oids.txt Failure, exiting postgres@xx.xx.xx.xx:~$ more tables_with_oids.txt In database: abs_test public.craft public.ports In database: postgres public.oid_test We can use the below SQL to find tables with OID, and it also generates the DDL to remove.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Some servers may need a few GBs of RAM, while others may need hundreds of GBs or even terabytes of RAM. Benchmark before you decide.

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Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. It is an open source database monitoring, management, and observability solution for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Take a look!

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing. They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution.

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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.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 22, 2022

This series doesn’t dwell too long on the basics but concentrates on less well-known aspects likely to trip up even the most experienced database professionals. In this first part, after a quick introduction, I look at the effects of simple parameterization on the plan cache. ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION. Shell Plans.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

key id, key user, key type, together with keys themselves) into the cache, unless MySQL is restarted, or you want to rotate the master key (you won’t though, as you know you have removed the keyring_file), it will not need the keyring file anymore. row Database: test Create Database: CREATE DATABASE `test` /*!40100

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make – are you able to host in your own cloud account or are you required to host through your managed service provider? Where to host your cloud database?

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SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge: [link]. With the announcement I can tell you more about one of the things we have been working on; SQL Server running on IoT Edge and Developer machines in under 500MB of memory. The effort focuses attention on memory usage and disk space requirements of SQL Server.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I've been teaching and writing about common SQL Server mistakes for many years. 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. SQL Server Agent alerts. This situation applies to on-premises SQL Server and IaaS.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. Then follow the instructions to either download the BOL or browse online.

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The HammerDB name.

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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. In shard-nothing, each shard can live in a totally separate logical schema instance / physical database server/data center/continent. The POC Why this POC?

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SQL Performance

APRIL 18, 2022

It’s no surprise even highly experienced SQL Server users tend to get this wrong, given the contradictory information often supplied to us. Let’s look at some examples using the Stack Overflow 2010 database on SQL Server 2019 CU 14, with database compatibility set to 150. Parameterization Not Attempted. Users AS U.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error. TB)) for storage of database tablespaces and logging.

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