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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

It enables businesses and organizations to meet uptime and service level objectives, protect business-critical data, and maintain performant databases. Failover: This functionality is all about switching — in both unplanned and planned situations — from a failed primary server to a standby server.

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ChatGPT vs. MySQL DBA Challenge

Percona

Questions Q: I have a MySQL server with 500 GB of RAM; my data set is 100 GB. Keep in mind that setting the buffer pool size too high may result in other processes on your server competing for memory, which can impact performance. Q: I have a MySQL server, and my application is writing at a rate of 100 MB/hour in my redo logs.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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An Introduction to MySQL Replication: Exploring Different Types of MySQL Replication Solutions

Percona

In this blog post, I provide an in-depth introduction to MySQL Replication, answering what it is, how it works , its benefits and challenges, as well as reviewing some of the MySQL replication concepts that are part of the MySQL environment (and Percona Server for MySQL specifically). Set the server-id to a unique value.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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Is It a Read Intensive or a Write Intensive Workload?

Percona

Because recognizing if the workload is read intensive or write intensive will impact your hardware choices, database configuration as well as what techniques you can apply for performance optimization and scalability. While our white paper Performance at Scale could provide useful insight if you are at the planning or review stage.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Copyright The information ​​ that is contained ​​ in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication.

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