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An approach to index tuning – Part 2

SQL Performance

In my last post , I started to outline the process I go through when tuning queries – specifically when I discover that I need to add a new index, or modify an existing one. value ( '(@Database) [1 ]' , 'varchar(128)' ) AS DatabaseName , obj. This is where index tuning becomes an art. nodes ( '.

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How To Reduce the Costs of Database Management in Financial Services

Percona

Below, we outline some proactive steps for achieving cost efficiency and maintaining performant database environments amid a turbulent economy: 1. Tune and optimize to improve performance Even if you consider your database platform modern, simple database tuning and optimization can speed up your processes significantly.

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How to fine tune failure detection

Dynatrace

Automatic failure detection works well in most cases especially for web services and when developers follow good coding practices. It is basically an exception which the code doesn’t expect to occur and therefore doesn’t deal with. For instance, if I expect a “dataValidationException”, the code would look like this: Try. {.

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Kubernetes Observability: Code Profiling With Flame Graphs

Percona

It shows which code paths are more busy on the CPU in given samples. Manual flame graphs collection Although the tool is excellent and automatically provides flame graphs, we don’t have much control over tuning the selected profiler. Flame graphs are a graphical representation of function calls.

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Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative

Dynatrace

Dynatrace’s OneAgent automatically captures PurePaths and analyzes transactions end-to-end across every tier of your application technology stack with no code changes, from the browser all the way down to the code and database level. Monitoring-as-code requirements at Dynatrace. A GitOps approach to observability.

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Tuning SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Performance

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. In each of the deployment models, the role of the database administrator is to make sure that SSRS is stable, dependable, and recoverable.

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Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Scalegrid

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

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