Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Another major trend is using multiple third-party components and services, which may be not easy to properly incorporate into testing. – Cloud.

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Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

You can get summaries of your database servers, or you verify replication lag on MySQL and PostgreSQL servers. You get thirty-eight scripts that can do any manner of actions, and you will find them very valuable in your regular database work. virtual = 2.2G virtual = 2.2G And did I mention they are open source?!

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

Traditional testing and monitoring practices have long been relied upon to achieve this goal. However, the line between testing and monitoring is becoming increasingly blurred with the emergence of synthetic monitoring. Synthetic Monitoring employs software-based agents to actively measure performance metrics.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

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HammerDB

MARCH 25, 2023

When you list the HammerDB directory you can now see a directory called “scripts” This directory contains CLI scripts to build, run, delete and query TPROC-C and TPROC-H workloads against all databases. If HammerDB is running on a separate system from the database under test then you should modify this value accordingly.

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HammerDB

JULY 14, 2021

However, as the two databases diverged from a shared common codebase, this presented a challenge in that it was not possible to modify the workload for MySQL or MariaDB without also changing the other. Also, the additional installation of the MySQL client libraries was needed when testing MariaDB. Prior to HammerDB v4.2 HammerDB v4.2

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For this reason HammerDB has implemented the data consistency checks for TPC-C and TPC-H to be run against all databases. The checks ensure that your transactions are fully and correctly processed by your database. Note that on some databases row counts may take longer than others and the test may take a number of minutes to complete.

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HammerDB

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

cloud based usage led to the development of a HammerDB HTTP based web service interface with output data stored in a SQLite database repository. ws_port defines on which port to start the HTTP service, whilst sqlite_db sets the location of the SQLite repository database. hammerdbws. HammerDB Web Service v4.3 HammerDB Web Service v4.3

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In particular, after a running a test it would be ideal to have a repository where we could verify the configuration of the workload that was run, the results and any timing or transaction count data generated to bring all the log output into a central location. . <commandline> This happens for both a schema build and running a test.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This earlier functionality has the advantage that there are no intermediate staging files required, and data is inserted into the database with multi-row inserts as soon as it is created. In our PC test the build started at 11:28:16 and ended at 11:30:27 meaning it took 2 minutes 11 seconds to build our 20 warehouse schema.

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HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

One of the first things you will want to do is make sure that we can access the 3rd party driver libraries for the database that we want to use. In this example we are using SQL Server so the message shows that everything is in order and we can proceed with running tests. Selecting a database. Select a database.

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Many of the HammerDB TPROC-C workloads have included features to prevent the database doing maintenance tasks for the previous run whilst another run is taking place. This is particularly important when running automated workloads back-back to generate a performance profile for a progressively increasing number of virtual users.

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Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

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Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. In this post, we will explore THP, its impact on database servers, and how to disable it for optimal performance and stability. As such, it is generally recommended to disable THP for most database workloads.

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HammerDB

MARCH 27, 2023

introduced a Dockerfile and Docker Images to pull from Docker Hub for rapid deployment of HammerDB with builds already including third-party database libraries. Copyright (C) 2003-2023 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands Initialized SQLite on-disk database /home/hammerdb/HammerDB-4.7/TMP/hammer.DB HammerDB v4.5 TMP/hammer.DB

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Having an effective test automation system is an absolute necessity in today’s agile software development environments. Automation works great, especially in case of smoke and regression tests and helps the QA teams to easily create and execute test cases that are complex in nature. Test Script Issues. Fixing Code Smell.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Developers can easily modify applications by adding or swapping out microservices, and testing requirements are reduced because microservices are isolated and often pre-tested. The problem could be in the database, the HTTP connection, the configuration of the message, or an outage on the sending or receiving end.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Developers can easily modify applications by adding or swapping out microservices, and testing requirements are reduced because microservices are isolated and often pre-tested. The problem could be in the database, the HTTP connection, the configuration of the message, or an outage on the sending or receiving end.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

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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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

If we talk about testing itself — automation has taken us several leaps ahead; QA teams have solidified test efficiency and coverage even further. Gone are the days when automation testers had to learn coding to write test scripts. Enter codeless automation testing, which is one of the latest software trends to look out for.

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HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

print(z," VU TEST") . print("TEST SEQUENCE COMPLETE"). Vuser 1:Timing test period of 1 in minutes Vuser 2:RUNNING Vuser 2:Initializing xtprof time profiler Vuser 2:Processing 10000000 transactions with output suppressed. Vuser 1:Test complete, Taking end Transaction Count. Use a different Browser. dbset('db','mssqls').

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Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. A detailed description of these concepts is below.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The official TPC-C test has a fixed number of users per warehouse and uses keying and thinking time so that the workload generated by each user is not intensive. By default each virtual user has the concept of a home warehouses where approximately 75% of its workload will take place.

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HammerDB

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

We need a different approach for both because in the schema build we are waiting for all of the virtual users to finish (vwait forever), however for the driver we are waiting for a set period of time before terminating them. For the build I have created more warehouses but with 5 virtual users to show the multithreaded nature of the build.

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HammerDB

MAY 10, 2021

HammerDB Variable or Step Workloads are an advanced testing feature that enables you to automatically vary the load on the database over a period of time. When taking this approach you would not focus on the test result but instead monitor the databases ability to cope with the variation in demand and transaction response times.

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HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. So to test I took a system with Skylake CPUs and all storage on a P4800X SSD. In the recent MySQL 8.0.16

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HammerDB

JULY 15, 2021

Instead, however, this was an imposed limit to encourage right-sizing of the test database instead of over-sizing. However, the precision of some numeric data types may not have been sufficient for larger values in some databases. All databases have been checked and updated for v4.2

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Percona

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In this article, we will demonstrate how to achieve asynchronous replication automatic source failover when our replica is a Percona Server for MySQL (PS) and the source is a Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) cluster, using virtual IP (VIP) managed by Keepalived. Once node3 becomes available again, the virtual IP should come back to node3.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Stefano started his presentation by showing how much cost and performance optimization is possible when knowing how to properly configure your application runtimes, databases, or cloud environments: Correct configuration of JVM parameters can save up to 75% resource utilization while delivering same or better performance!

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HammerDB

JUNE 22, 2023

Configuring the Jobs Database The base configuration is set in the xml files in the config directory with the jobs SQLite database being set in the commandline section of generic.xml by specifying the filename. Copyright (C) 2003-2023 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands Initialized new Jobs on-disk database /opt/HammerDB-4.8/DATA/hammer.db

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Apica

MAY 10, 2019

Whatever size of company you are, performance monitoring and testing is a critical part of the success you will have. It is also worth noting that brand popularity doesn’t translate into more success if you are not testing load to confirm your streaming services will performs. Apica’s scale is enterprise-grade.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2020

First, create a virtual environment, named djangodev. Now to get into your virtual environment, you need to get it activated; source ~/.virtualenvs/djangodev/bin/activate. Note: You need to activate the virtual environment anytime you want to use Django. You will also need it when deploying, testing and debugging your projects.

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Virtualization Database Code Processing 143

HammerDB

MAY 7, 2021

HammerDB has featured a graphical transaction counter, this enables you to see the transaction rate taking place on the database during the test. The transaction counter is designed not to be intrusive on the schema being tested. An example test script is shown including the transaction counter commands. Prior to v4.1

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SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Migrating an on-premises SQL Server instance to an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) is a common method to migrate to Azure. Microsoft has helped simplify things by creating multiple types of virtual machines. The various types are: General purpose – Balanced CPU-to-memory ratio, small to medium databases. Benchmark Test.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

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HammerDB

JULY 8, 2019

HammerDB already has 2 interfaces with which to interface with the commands to build and test databases using the GUI interface or CLI. The following test script shows how this interaction can be done also including deliberate errors to demonstrate error handling. From HammerDB version 3.2 more restchk.tcl #!/bin/sh

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