All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Traditionally records in a database were stored as such: the data in a row was stored together for easy and fast retrieval. Combined with the rise of data warehouse workloads, where there is often significant redundancy in the values stored in columns, and database models based on column oriented storage took off.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Cache C++ 79

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 110

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. Recently, a SentryOne customer contacted me about performance concerns with their SentryOne database. The Top Queries That Weren't.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

My development collogues and I are starting a regular blog series, outlining the vast range of scalability improvements, allowing SQL Server 2016 to run across a wide array of hardware configurations, faster and better than previous releases of SQL Server. SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: In-Memory Optimized Database Worker Pool.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB sectors run on smaller sectors   14 System and sample databases   15 Determining the formatted sector size of database   15 What sector sizes does SQL Server support? KB boundary   12 Larger transaction logs   13 Restore and attach   14 Format for 4 ?KB

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Input/Output Requirements. CSA ISO/IEC 9945-1:2005 (R2009) 3.375 Synchronized I/O Data Integrity Completion. The Back Story. Fua = Forced Unit Access.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90