Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

Configuration testing is performed to discover the optimum combinations of software and hardware specifications that allow the system to work without flaws. What is Configuration Testing? However, configuration testing is a time-consuming technique, so the team must create a workable plan. Types of Configuration Testing.

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In this post, we will do a walk through example of installing and configuring unixODBC and the SQL Server on Linux drivers as well as the HammerDB connection options to enable HammerDB on Linux to be able to connect to SQL Server. bin/odbcinst -d -q [ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server] [ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server].

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines. On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors.

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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. 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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SQL Performance

AUGUST 2, 2019

I have been making the same recommendations about tempdb since I started working with SQL Server over 15 years ago, when I was working with customers running version 2000. From the customer side, this has been the limit of what can be done*, until SQL Server 2019. is out , I thought it might be time to do a bit of testing myself.

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Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. virtual = 2.2G virtual = 2.2G

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 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. Quite often the whole area of load testing is reduced to pre-production testing using protocol-level recording/playback. – Cloud.

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HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

In this example we are using SQL Server so the message shows that everything is in order and we can proceed with running tests. In the example below we have modified the SQL Server, number of warehouses to build and the virtual users to build them. When the build is complete Virtual User 1 will show TPCC SCHEMA COMPLETE.

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Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. On-premise testing comes with a lot of responsibility.

Cloud 57

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This is particularly important when running automated workloads back-back to generate a performance profile for a progressively increasing number of virtual users. 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.

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DZone

MAY 30, 2019

With the last blog , we set up scalable XCUITest and run them on a Continuous Integration server. The test executed in the CI server used headless simulators, however, we also need to set our tests to be executed on real devices. This is the last post in our XCUITest101 series. Bitbar Device Cloud.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In order to work around this, administrators have to deploy a proxy layer on the server-side. The popular choices are DNS mapping, virtual IP mapping, PgPool and HAProxy. When a PostgreSQL master fails, one of the standby servers needs to be elected to master. Why not have this built it into the server?

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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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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type. Collected telemetry data may include the type of device being used (cellphone, tablet, smart watch), geographical location, server response time, performance, and security.

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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. What are Transparent Huge Pages? In this case, THP is enabled.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks. Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and Azure Virtual Networks (VNET) are private, isolated sections of the cloud infrastructure where you can launch resources.

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Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

There is a section in our Documentation ( Introduction to Serverless PostgreSQL ) and a short overview of the primary components: Page Server The storage server with the primary goal of storing all data pages and WAL records Safe Keeper A component to store WAL records in memory (to reduce latency).

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Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

To ensure the features run uniformly across various browsers and OS versions that our users have, we should perform multi-browser testing. Let us understand the importance of multi-browser testing before we proceed. You can also check out our post on the most common issues one can face while performing browser compatibility tests.

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Testsigma

JULY 31, 2021

The Shift Left testing approach is not a new term. This testing approach expedites testing and helps detect bugs in the early stages of development. But, First, What’s Shift Left Testing? Shift Left is a testing approach where testing begins right from the software development phase.

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HammerDB

MARCH 25, 2023

scripts/tcl/maria/tprocc/maria_tprocc_buildschema.tcl echo "+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-" echo "RUN HAMMERDB TEST" echo "+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-"./hammerdbcli If HammerDB is running on a separate system from the database under test then you should modify this value accordingly.

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Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

Planning for resources of a PMM Server host instance can be tricky because the numbers can change depending on the DB instances being monitored by PMM. We have tested PMM version 2.33.0 Capacity planning and setup details We used a dedicated 32-core CPU and 64GB of RAM for our testing.

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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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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 20, 2020

By deploying a new version of your app into a staging environment, you can easily test it before it goes live. You can even redirect part of your production traffic to the staging slot in order to test the new version on a limited number of real users. For full details, see the Azure documentation. . How to get started .

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 17, 2018

For a really quick answer create a schema with 250-500 warehouses per server CPU socket for more details size as follows. . 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.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Furthermore, the implementation of virtualization in both public and private clouds has significantly lowered the expenses associated with constructing, testing, and deploying ML-based models.

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DZone

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Virtualization has become a crucial element for companies and individuals looking to optimize their computing resources in today’s rapidly changing technological landscape. Mini PCs have become effective virtualization tools in this setting, providing a portable yet effective solution for a variety of applications.

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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. This happens for both a schema build and running a test. TMP/hammer.DB

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Stored Procedures and Client SQL comparison To test the stored procedures and client implementations, we ran both workloads against a system equipped with Intel Xeon 8280L. The data shows a scripted automated workload running a number of back to back tests each time with an increasing number of virtual users.

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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. Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. Generation.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

This results in cross-browser compatibility issues and testing them out is cross-browser testing. But just like any other testing paradigm, cross-browser testing is full of challenges and we will explore them in this post along with some arrangements that can help smoothen the ride a bit! What is Cross-Browser Testing?

Testing 53

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 8, 2022

At Netflix, 10% of CPU time somewhere unexpected can be a large costly issue across thousands of server instances. The dontneed dropped the virtual to physical mapping, which would soon afterwards cause a page fault to bring the mapping back. ## 4. In this case there's an orange tower (kernel code) that's unusual.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Microsoft offers a wide variety of tools to monitor applications deployed within Microsoft Azure, and the Azure Monitor suite includes several integration points into the enterprise applications, including: VM agent – Collects logs and metrics from the guest OS of virtual machines. Available as an agent installer).

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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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SQL Server According to Bob

MARCH 27, 2017

SQL Server is running on Windows and encounters an exception. The dump includes the faulting thread’s memory, indirect memory referenced by the thread, SQL server ring buffers and a bit more memory. SQL Server is running on Linux and encounters an exception within a SQL Server module. Often 10+GB.

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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

Virtualization 57

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

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. Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. 4.22 %usr 38.40 0.42 %sys 9.52

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 5, 2017

Last March I moved from 22 years in SQL Server support to the SQL Server development team, working on SQL Server on Linux project and reporting to Slava Oks. As Slava highlights in his recent blog post , he also contacted me in early 2015 to assist with supportability of SQL Server on Linux. There are no burning secrets.

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