Database Software Engineering Storage Systems 
High Scalability
JANUARY 11, 2022
The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram. System Components. Component Design. Posting on Instagram.
The Morning Paper
MARCH 3, 2020
Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. NSDI’20. This paper is a real joy to read.
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The Morning Paper
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
The key insight this led to is that ML models are software , derived from data. ML learning systems combine the characteristics of software, e.g. the need for CI/CD pipelines, and of data, e.g. the need to track lineage. Many of the software engineering discipline and controls need to be brought over into an ML context.
SQL Server According to Bob
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. The Back Story.
SQL Server According to Bob
MAY 19, 2019
SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge: [link]. For example, Azure SQL Database Edge can already use TSQL Predict Machine Learning (ML) and Column Storage. Partitioning allows SQL Server to scale to the largest systems with record-setting performance. ‘ For example, going as far back as SQL Server 7.0
SQL Performance
APRIL 17, 2020
Ultimately, tables are stored as a sequence of bytes with some metadata elsewhere in the system to describe what each of those bytes mean, and how they relate to each of the table's various columns. It requires only a few changes to system tables, and a minimal amount of logging. Always specify NULL or NOT NULL with ALTER COLUMN.
SQL Server According to Bob
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
There are two ways to take advantage of non-volatile storage (NVDIMM) for SQL Server (Direct access or Block Device storage.). Block storage is what you think of today as disk access. Create / Alter Database … LOG ON. SQL Server 2016 is designed to detect non-volatile storage devices. Tail Of Log Caching.
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