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Understanding the deadlock definition in SQL Server

SQL Shack

This article explains the deadlock definition in SQL Server, and it also mentions how to capture deadlock with extended events. Deadlock Definition Deadlock occurs when two processes want […]. Deadlock is a resource contention issue that occurs between two or more than two processes.

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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. Below is a Dynatrace honeycomb chart depicting the performance of the synthetics tests tracked by the Dynatrace Business Insights team. This had the effect of dramatically speeding up its performance and reducing support costs.

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Percona Server for MongoDB 7 Is Now Available

Percona

Why choose Percona Server for MongoDB? The difference between Percona Server for MongoDB and MongoDB CE is that we strive to provide a gap-closing set of features for users who want to use MongoDB in production. Why release Percona Server for MongoDB 7 now? which was released as Percona Server for MongoDB RC 7.0.2-1.

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HammerDB v4.10 New Features: Partitioning and Advanced Statistics for SQL Server TPROC-H

HammerDB

adds performance enhancements for the SQL Server TPROC-H workload in the form of partitioning for the orders and lineitem tables as well as the option to create advanced statistics. Certain primary and foreign key definitions defined in HammerDB are no longer valid and will not be created. HammerDB v4.10 Summary HammerDB v4.10

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The Future of Performance Testing

Alex Podelko

While there are still quite a lot of cases where it is still applicable, it needs to evolve into more sophisticated processes tightly integrated with development and other parts of performance engineering. That dictates changes needed in performance testing (and, eventually, performance testing tools).

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T-SQL Windowing Improvements in SQL Server 2022

SQL Performance

Microsoft recently released the first public preview of SQL Server 2022. This clause is now available in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2022, provided you use database compatibility level 160 or higher. For example, the following query is valid since the window name definitions aren’t cyclic: SELECT 'This is valid'.

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The Performance Golden Rule Revisited

Tim Kadlec

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. When the rule was first brought up, frontend performance wasn’t really a thing that people did.