Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

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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Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. 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. This is called double buffering.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

Tuning thousands of parameters has become an impossible task to achieve via a manual and time-consuming approach. The optimization goal was to improve the application efficiency, that is to improve the ratio between service throughput and cloud costs while not increasing the application latency (e.g. The Akamas approach.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Interestingly, our partner RedHat reported in 2021 that around 80% of deployed workloads are databases or data caches, storing data in persistent volume claims (PVCs). You also decide to run your database for storing user uploads – such as images or videos – directly in Kubernetes. However, you lack insights into your PVCs.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

How the MongoDB timeout is set up can significantly affect your application’s performance, no matter if you are an experienced MongoDB user or just starting with NoSQL databases. Typical applications are interacting with different database servers based on the business logic.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. ” A data warehouse, on the other hand, is an efficient and fast option for querying data.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Choosing the Right Cloud Services Choosing the right cloud services is crucial in developing an efficient multi cloud strategy. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions? Elevate your cloud strategy today with ScaleGrid!

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

As application developers, your main focus is to design the most efficient queries for your application. You want to ensure the integrity of the data that your application pushes to the database, and construct the most efficient queries to retrieve the data needed for the application.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Bloom filters are an essential component of an LSM-based database engine like MyRocks. A bloom filter is a space-efficient way of storing information about a list of keys. Tuning In terms of tuning, two parameters can be tuned, the size of the bitmap and the number of bits set by every value.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success. In MongoDB 6.x:

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

of respondents are currently utilizing databases in Kubernetes (k8s). These indicators suggest that the adoption of databases on k8s is in its early stages and is likely to continue growing in the future. Customers will increasingly prioritize AI efficiency and education to tackle legal and ethical concerns.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Continuous cloud monitoring enables real-time detection and response to incidents, with best practices highlighting the importance of assessing cloud service providers, adopting layered security, and leveraging automation for efficient scanning and monitoring.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It would be a shame if your database crashed, after all. Developers are often strongly discouraged from holding a database connection while other operations take place.

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Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Error logging is a critical aspect of database administration, providing insights into issues, warnings, and errors that may affect the system’s stability and performance. MySQL 8 introduces Error Log Filtering as a mechanism to fine-tune the error log, allowing administrators to focus on the most critical issues.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This unified approach enables Grail to vault past the limitations of traditional databases. And without the encumbrances of traditional databases, Grail performs fast. “In In most cases, especially with more complex queries, Grail gives you answers at five to 100 times more speed than any other database you can use right now.”

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. Kubernetes-based efficient power level exporter (Kepler) is a Prometheus exporter that uses ML models to estimate the energy consumption of Kubernetes pods.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2021

I wanted to understand how I could tune Dynatrace’s problem detection, but to do that I needed to understand the situation first. This is required for understanding how I intend to improve the efficiency of (manual) alert ticket handling. With R (or RStudio) you can efficiently perform analysis on large data sets.

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Percona

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We discussed how roles can inherit permissions from other roles, simplifying access control in your database. In our previous blog post, PostgreSQL Role Inheritance at a Glance , we delved into the concept of role inheritance in PostgreSQL. But what if you need to discover which roles inherit from a specific role?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

T o get performance insights into applications and efficiently troubleshoot and optimize them, you need precise and actionable analytics across the entire software life cycle. Getting specific metrics from libraries that are pre-instrumented with OpenTelemetry (for example, database drivers). What’s next.

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Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Managing storage and performance efficiently in your MySQL database is crucial, and general tablespaces offer flexibility in achieving this. Key features Multi-table storage : Unlike file-per-table tablespaces, which store each table in a separate file, general tablespaces can house numerous tables, enhancing storage efficiency.

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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

These capabilities allow you to build efficient and robust business services on the mainframe. Dynatrace OneAgent automatically connects IBM technologies like CICS, CICS Transaction Gateway, IMS, IMS SOAP Gateway, MQ, as well as DB2 and DL/I databases without any additional configuration. JDBC database connections. Stay tuned!

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Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Database administrators with appropriate privileges can associate virtual CPUs with resource groups and assign threads to these groups. Dangerous , because if you set this to a thread when using connection pooling OR ProxySQL and multiplexing, you may end up assigning a limitation to queries that instead, you wanted to run efficiently.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Containers are portable, self-contained operating environments that include applications and the dependencies they need to run, such as databases, middleware, and frameworks. Infrastructure is provisioned and modified in code, eliminating much of the need for manual installation and tuning. Microservices.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. Most recently, in StackOverflow’s 2022 Stack Developer Survey , PostgreSQL took a slight lead over MySQL (46.48% to 45.68%) as the most popular database platform among professional developers. What is PostgreSQL used for? Is PostgreSQL enterprise-ready?

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 80

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

Manual tasks like shutting down virtual machines in bulk or creating database backups can be error prone. Azure Data Factory is a hybrid data integration service that enables you to quickly and efficiently create automated data pipelines—without writing any code. Therefore, automation not only saves time, it also boosts reliability.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. The Top Queries That Weren't.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Putting logs into context with metrics, traces, and the broader application topology enables and improves how companies manage their cloud architectures, platforms and infrastructure, optimizing applications and remediate incidents in a highly efficient way. So please stay tuned for updates. . What’s next. Seeing is believing

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Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Some startups adopted MySQL in its early days such as Facebook, Uber, Pinterest, and many more, which are now big and successful companies that prove that MySQL can run on large databases and on heavily used sites. In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

By leveraging the power of mobile technology, UberEats provides a seamless and efficient way for users to order their favorite meals from a wide range of eateries. UberEats also excels in providing a reliable and efficient delivery service. Stay tuned for valuable insights on designing a captivating UberEats clone.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint. AWS speaker: T.

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Percona

JULY 2, 2023

The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. The “scheduler” determines the placement of new containers so compute resources are used most efficiently. Watch webinar now! Networking.

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SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2021

The basic unit of SQL tuning is the query. It’s also a good way to not overwhelm the database servers … usually. With Load-More paging, there’s at least a chance to make efficient use of an index. It can also be very difficult to pull off efficiently using SQL Server. When does this get awkward? Paged Results.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. I will be using the 50GB Stack Overflow 2013 database , but any large table with a low number of distinct values would do. The Stack Overflow 2013 database comes without nonclustered indexes to minimize download time. Test Environment. BountyAmount.

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