Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

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SQL Shack

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In this article, we will talk about the query tuning features that were announced with SQL Server 2019. Introduction Sometimes, tuning the queries can be a tough task for database developers or administrators.

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SQL Shack

APRIL 21, 2020

This article will cover some essential techniques for SQL query tuning. Query tuning is a very wide topic to talk about, but some essential techniques never change in order to tune queries in SQL Server. Particularly, it is a difficult issue for those who are a newbie to SQL query tuning or who are thinking […].

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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. This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2020

In my last post , I started to outline the process I go through when tuning queries – specifically when I discover that I need to add a new index, or modify an existing one. This is where index tuning becomes an art. If performance improves, you're good to go! Step 6: Testing. It's rarely that simple.

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SQL Shack

JUNE 25, 2021

In this article, we will focus on one major SQL Server performance issue that we may experience during heavy data insertion in a table. Introduction SQL Server allocates some memory from the operating system, and this is because it is designed to do all read and modification operations in memory instead of on disk.

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SQL Shack

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Gaining experience in SQL query tuning can be very difficult and complicated for database developers or administrators. For this reason, in this article, we will work on a case study and we are going to learn how we can tune its performance step by step. In this fashion, we will understand well how to approach […].

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SQL Shack

MAY 8, 2020

In this article, we will continue to learn essential techniques of the SQL Server query tuning with practical examples. Query tuning is a bit complicated issue and if any database programmer wants to be successful on this topic, they can start with learning these basic methods to improve their skill.

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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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Availability Servers Database Open Source 96

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Percona

MARCH 1, 2023

EXPLAIN ANALYSE is a big boon to query tuning. EXPLAIN without the ANALYSE gives you the server’s estimated analysis of the performance of your query. Adding ANALYSE causes the query to execute, and the numbers returned to report the real numbers of the query’s performance. Why Percona Server for MySQL?

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2019

For instance, alert me when an error 999 is detected in application server logs or any HTTP 500 error from the web server access log. If the code triggers an unexpected “connectionTimeOutException”, there is no “catch” so the application server will catch it and return an HTTP error. How to fine-tune failure detection.

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SQL Server Performance

JANUARY 27, 2019

In this installament of the TSQL Performance Tuning series we turn our attention to Views Views Used Within Joins or Where Conditions As a generic concept, an inner join with an object which has insufficient indexing will result in index scanning or perhaps a table scan which also applies for Views Impacts: • Much CPU […].

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Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. It is important to pay attention to performance when writing database queries. shared_buffer.

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SQL Shack

MARCH 4, 2021

Introduction Sometimes, query tuning operations can get very challenging and complicated in SQL Server. With the SQL Server 2016, a new feature Query Store has been introduced and this feature […].

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

That’s particularly true of our GRPC clients and servers, where request cancellations due to timeouts interact with reliability features such as retries, hedging and fallbacks. Operational simplicity Service owners often reach out to us with questions about excessive pause times and for help with tuning.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The application was running on a GNU/Linux OS, Java 8, Tomcat 8 application server. Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /.

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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.

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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. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Syslog is the go-to protocol that delivers infrastructure administrators, network engineers, and security team logs that tell them all they need to know about their systems’ delivery, performance, availability, and security. Syslog is a protocol with clear specifications that require a dedicated syslog server.

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DZone

JANUARY 14, 2020

Find out more about client-side performance! Client-Side Performance Testing Importance and Introduction. If you're worried about the performance of your web application, you need to test and analyze not only with what happens on the server but also with what happens in the browser.

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SQL Server Performance

JANUARY 3, 2019

In this article series we will focus on the primary points of T-SQL performance tuning. In this first installment I will lopok at tuning temp tables, table variables and the Union command.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. However, serverless applications have unique characteristics that make observability more difficult than in traditional server-based applications. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. More precisely, this team uses AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to run fault injection to improve the application’s performance and resiliency.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

With almost 100 public locations worldwide, Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring enables 24/7 measurement of the availability and performance of your applications as experienced by your customers and coworkers worldwide. More than 50% of the Synthetic-enabled ActiveGates used by our customers are deployed on Linux servers. What’s next.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Multiple Prometheus servers might be required, creating significant maintenance efforts. Alternatively, if you’re already using a Prometheus Server to gather data from your distributed systems, you can now seamlessly make this data work for you in Dynatrace as well—use your Prometheus server as the endpoint for scraping metrics.

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Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

Below, we outline some proactive steps for achieving cost efficiency and maintaining performant database environments amid a turbulent economy: 1. Here are a few ways you can scale down and save: Audit your systems: Auditing your system for unused servers and eliminating those servers can reduce your cloud spend.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

On the client’s side, a request is sent to the streaming server to obtain the protected encrypted digital content. Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique Evaluation Metrics For evaluating the performance of the anomaly detection models we consider a set of evaluation metrics and report their values.

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SQL Shack

JUNE 25, 2019

It is essential for the DBA to need to ensure the SQL Server database performance. Performance tuning is an open-ended task, and you need to ensure the monitoring of various database parameters.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. During this time, you are also likely to experience a degraded performance of queries as your system resources are busy in index-creation work as well. Performance Benefits of Rolling Index Creation. EC2 instance m4.large

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SQL Server Performance

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Recently we started experiencing a very strange issue in our production reporting environment where the Re-indexing and Update Statistics operation suddenly began taking more than 2 days to complete and was thus causing blockage in the database which in turn caused impairment in application performance.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

SQL Server dbcc clonedatabase ​​ - ​​ Gotcha The dbcc clonedatabase is a ​​ handy command to clone metadata and ​​ information such as ​​ query disk store. The new database generated from DBCC CLONEDATABASE is primarily intended for troubleshooting and diagnostic purposes.

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Percona

JANUARY 2, 2024

TL&DR : Depending on the workload, the thread pool plugin can cause serious performance drops. Two setups running in cluster mode: one in MariaDB+Galera and one with Percona XtraDB Cluster (Percona Server+Galera). In each situation, I’ve seen huge drops in the performance where the QPS were going to almost zero.

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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. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. Mitigating performance risks moves to SaaS vendors.

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