Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Sure, database migration is complex, particularly when you’re looking to migrate from a proprietary database to an open source one. Database migration is almost always time-consuming, tedious, and full of potential pitfalls. Database migration is complex Let’s start here. Have you tuned your environment?

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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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SQL Shack

APRIL 19, 2021

In this article, we’ll show a process for SQL Server performance tuning, and several tools, tips and techniques you can use to monitor performance and take the necessary steps to improve it. SQL Server is a common platform for enterprise-grade database workloads.

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. I won’t cover all the features but show just enough that you’ll want to see more of what you can learn to accomplish for yourself.

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Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 106

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2019

How to fine-tune failure detection. A small number of HTTP 500 errors in red were detected due to a connectivity issue with the database. This is especially useful for backend processing services which may not be relying on HTTP for instance scheduled tasks. This means that all the real failures (i.e. Fault exception is thrown.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013.

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? That’s a heritage of the LAMP model when the same server would host both the database and the web server.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

SQL Server has always provided the ability to capture actual queries in an easily-consumable rowset format – first with legacy SQL Server Profiler, later via Extended Events, and now with a combination of those two concepts in Azure SQL Database. Although this can be somewhat helpful, it is not the same.

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

For optimum performance, a PostgreSQL database depends on the operating system parameters being defined correctly. Poorly configured OS kernel parameters can cause degradation in database server performance. Therefore, it is imperative that these parameters are configured according to the database server and its workload.

Tuning 56

Tuning Database Servers Processing 56

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2023

Dynatrace has announced that it has successfully achieved the Google Cloud Ready – Cloud SQL designation for Cloud SQL, Google Cloud’s fully-managed, relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

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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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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.

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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. On modern Linux systems, the difference in overhead between forking a process and creating a thread is much lesser than it used to be.

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Architecture Database Latency Servers 200

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. x+ in Java).

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Percona

AUGUST 10, 2018

The performance of a PostgreSQL database can be compromised by dead tuples, since they continue to occupy space and can lead to bloat. Now, though, it’s time to look at autovacuum for postgres, and the internals you to know to maintain a high performance PostgreSQL database needed by demanding applications. What is autovacuum ?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

These application security testing approaches often do not have enough insight into real-time data and event flows to prevent vulnerabilities from slipping through the review process. This reduces false positives in your DevSecOps process. These limitations include the following: High tuning and monitoring overhead.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 23, 2020

The Pgpool-II parent process forks 32 child processes by default – these are available for connection. The architecture is similar to PostgreSQL server: one process = one connection. It also forks the ‘pcp process’ which is used for administrative tasks, and beyond the scope of this post. Stay tuned!

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Cache Servers Architecture Processing 264

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a very simple utility that does exactly one thing – it sits between the database and the clients and speaks the PostgreSQL protocol, emulating a PostgreSQL server. Once the authentication succeeds: PgBouncer checks for a cached connection, with the same username+database combination. pgBouncer Architecture | Source.

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Cache Architecture Database Servers 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The goal is to turn more data into insights so the whole organization can make data-driven decisions and automate processes. Grail data lakehouse delivers massively parallel processing for answers at scale Modern cloud-native computing is constantly upping the ante on data volume, variety, and velocity.

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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. As datasets continue to grow in size, the amount of RAM required to store and process these datasets also increases. Benchmark before you decide.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Logs highlight observability challenges Ingesting, storing, and processing the unprecedented explosion of data from sources such as software as a service, multicloud environments, containers, and serverless architectures can be overwhelming for today’s organizations. Grail enables 100% precision insights into all stored data.

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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. This covers the infrastructure, processes, and the application stack, including tracing, profiling, and logs. What is Prometheus? Labels we don’t need.

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 176

Percona

APRIL 13, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system that is widely used for storing and managing data. Replication lag is the delay between the time when data is written to the primary database and the time when it is replicated to the standby databases. What is replication lag?

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Latency Tuning Open Source Network 82

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. This leads us to the process page of our specific Apache instance.

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Databases are different from a lot of software. This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. introduces is the limitation of the downgrade process. For one, they often favor stability over innovation.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In this blog post, we discuss an approach to optimize the MySQL index creation process in such a way that your regular workload is not impacted. There will be a short duration (tens of seconds) during which you will lose connectivity to your database due to the failover, but this can be overcome by having application-level retries.

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Best Practices Latency Tuning Database 239

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Crafting Your Multi-Cloud Blueprint Formulating a comprehensive multi-cloud framework is an intricate process that requires a business’s specific requirements, choosing suitable cloud services, and optimizing for performance and affordability. Elevate your cloud strategy today with ScaleGrid!

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Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Percona

AUGUST 7, 2023

Both logs are crucial in the ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) properties of database systems. Crash recovery: In the event of a system crash or restart, the undo log helps restore the database to a consistent state by applying the necessary undo operations based on the recorded before-images.

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Database Tuning Storage Open Source 96

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. This fully automated scaling and tuning will enable a serverless-like experience in our Operators and Everest.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 80

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With this data, we’ll be able to better understand and tune our Postgres servers. The main idea is to be able to easily detect what the server is doing at any point in time so we can better understand how it reacts to the workload and tune accordingly. You can search the blog for more information on this if needed.

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Monitoring Tuning Metrics Servers 91

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

COBOL applications must be processed on expensive general processors, while Java applications are eligible to run on IBM Z specialty processors such as zIIPs. Processing capacity associated with zIIPs isn’t subject to license costs and maintenance fees. This insight lays the required foundation for our modernization process.”

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Java Government Database Programming 178

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Key Takeaways Cloud security monitoring is a comprehensive approach involving both manual and automated processes to oversee servers, applications, platforms, and websites, using tools that are customized to fit unique cloud architectures. Get ready for actionable insights that balance technical depth with practical advice.

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Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because monolithic applications combine database, client-side interfaces, and server-side application elements in a single executable, they’re difficult to understand, even for their own administrators. It is better to consider refactoring as part of the application transformation process before migrating, if possible.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms. The Serverless Process. Security, databases, and programming languages effortlessly remain up to date and secure in the serverless model. The average request is handled, processed, and returned quickly.

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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. If during the ticket handling another alert is raised this process repeats – but maybe with a different set of people who are working in parallel. Instead, we were able to focus on the relevant ones.

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