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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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Configuration Testing – An Introduction

Testlodge

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Types of Configuration Testing.

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Trends and Topics for 2022

Adrian Cockcroft

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed. primarily virtual?—?and

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Segmentation Fault – A DBA Perspective

Percona

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Paging This was designed to allow non-contiguous space allocation to processes. Hence, the database should be started with an option to create core files.

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. TB)) for storage of database tablespaces and logging.

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

HammerDB

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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