SQL Server According to Bob

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Please check out these new resources for SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server on Linux and Docker: Brk2045 upgrade sql server 2017 (on prem, iaa-s and paas) from Bob Ward. Brk2051 sql server on linux and docker from Bob Ward. SQL Server 2017 Release Notes. SQL Server on Linux Release Notes.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

since 2017, and many customers have used it with great success while we collected requirements for the next iteration of our Lambda extension. To handle N parallel requests, N Lambda instances need to be available, and AWS will spin up up to 1000 such instances automatically to handle 1000 parallel requests. What’s next.

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Percona

AUGUST 4, 2023

In this blog post, we will look at the lifecycle and release management for MySQL and MariaDB servers — where we are now and relevant historical background. For MySQL, both releases are made by the same company (Oracle), follow the same version numbering, and the Enterprise version is a superset of what is available in Community.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world. million unique visits.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

These results are pretty on-par with a 2017 survey by the Uptime Institute which found that 65% of enterprise workloads were still running in data centers owned and operated by those enterprises. using SQL Server, 17.3% So, how are PostgreSQL users choosing to host the clusters that power their applications? are using public clouds.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. We already have 55 Availability Zones across 19 infrastructure regions that customers can use today. In 2017, we brought the Amazon Global Network to Africa, through AWS Direct Connect.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

the ipykernel process) of the jupyter-lab server process , which means the main event loop being injected by pystan is that of the ipykernel process, not the jupyter-server process. Blame The Network The next theory was that the network between the web browser UI (on the laptop) and the JupyterLab server was slow.

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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. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server. Installation and support of SSRS can be confusing.

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Curiously, SQL Server's query processor already supports an internal comparison operator IS, which uses the same semantics as the desired IS operator I described here. Unfortunately, this clause is not yet available in T-SQL. 10249 2017-07-10 10252 2017-07-11 10250 2017-07-12. Figure 1: Plan for Query 1.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second.

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SQL Performance

JULY 9, 2019

This feature is currently not available in T-SQL. I posted a suggestion to improve SQL Server by adding support for nested window functions. At the date of this writing, there's not much information available out there about the true standard nested window functions. 2 2017-09-18 88.80 10248 85 2017-07-04 440.00

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. 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.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 11, 2021

One is using a function called DATE_BUCKET , which at the time of writing is only available in Azure SQL Edge. Another is using a custom calculation that emulates the DATE_BUCKET function, which you can use in any version, edition, and flavor of SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. 2017 343 495118.14 DATE_BUCKET. OrderValues.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Finally, I cover missing standard features related to NULL handling in T-SQL and suggest alternatives that are available in T-SQL. WHERE NOT ( shippeddate = '20190102' ) ; This query returns the following output: orderid shippeddate -- -- 10249 2017-07-10 10252 2017-07-11 10250 2017-07-12.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

USENIX is a nonprofit organisation committed to making content and research freely available – both conference proceedings and the recorded presentations of their events. Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem. In Facebook’s implementation of NativeLoglet, seal simply sets a bit on a quorum of servers.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

SQL Server 2017 leverages up to 4 log writer workers, on hidden schedulers, to assist in transaction log processing activities. You may find the number of log write workers has been increased to 8 when running newer releases of SQL Server to accommodate larger systems. Total number NUMA nodes * 2.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Xen AWS 2017 In 2015, AWS launched c4, which used hardware virtualization for EBS volumes. With a solution in hand for network performance, the next target was storage. ## 6. 0% performance overhead.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. Modern network performance and availability. The Moto G4 , for example. Hard Reset.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

I briefly mentioned that batch mode data is normalized in my last article Batch Mode Bitmaps in SQL Server. You will need SQL Server 2016 (or later) and Developer Edition (or equivalent) to reproduce the results shown here. You can skip the WHERE clauses if you are running SQL Server 2017. s = SUM ( T.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Bob Ward and I worked with our SQL Server Tool developers (thanks David) to enable ‘Q uick XE Trace ’ capabilities. The feature is available in the latest SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) release. Here is an example using the SQL Server SSMS 2017 against my SQL 2016 server.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We’re no longer living in an age where large companies require only physical servers, with similar and rarely changing configurations, that could be manually maintained in a single Datacenter. This will allow teams to start worrying about other things that have not been solved yet by the extensive tools already available.

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SQL Performance

JULY 24, 2022

SQL Server 2012 went out of all forms of official support about two weeks ago, on July 12 th. Best approaches for running totals – updated for SQL Server 2012. In the very first post on this site, I compared the performance of long-standing running totals methods with the new windowing functions added in SQL Server 2012.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Traffic shaping / canary deployment was pre-announced at Serverless Conf NYC in October, and this is now available. there’s no inline debugging available in the Lambda Console.) without web app servers?—?to That means that 3GB functions might not see a linear speed bump for primarily single threaded functions. We’re the experts!

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Task Distribution in Web Servers In web applications experiencing high traffic levels, it is crucial to allocate tasks effectively to avoid overwhelming the servers. As a potent message broker, RabbitMQ is pivotal in spreading tasks among various web servers to maintain equilibrium and optimize efficiency. RabbitMQ in Action.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. In 2010, having seemingly gone all-in with the tenets of open source development , the company brought MongoDB to the market as an open source database server. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. Now, back to MongoDB itself.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

​​ When the utility attempted to issue the thaw command the command would be queued, and the database could not return to an operational state until SQL Server was restarted. ​​ While the name can be any string it is commonly a Guid accommodating the ​​ uniqueness requirements.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Daniel An, Google, 2017. According to Google SOASTA research, 2017 the probability of page bounce rate increases with increasing page loading time, because it greatly improves the user experience. You can make beautiful-looking websites with the supports of millions of themes & plugins available. That’s a big problem.”

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Prior to SQL Server 2017 CU4 for Linux (Linux only) the generation of a sequential UUID may not function as expected. SQL Server’s NewSequentialId () calls the Windows API UuidCreateSequential , which is limited in SQLPAL, prior to the CU 4 update. Server B may be generating uuids that sort before those from Server A.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. It would be nice if SQL Server could push the aggregation down into the scan and just return distinct values from the column store directly. Test Environment.

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The downside to the latter is that, in SQL Server 2017, you cannot run this online… but you will be able to in 2019. Also note that in SQL Server 2019 this technique may not work so well , but you can build clustered columnstore indexes online there, so it may not matter as much.

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SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

First introduced in SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition, an adaptive join enables a runtime transition from a batch mode hash join to a row mode correlated nested loops indexed join (apply) at runtime. Like any hash join, an adaptive join reads all rows available on its build input and copies the required data into a hash table.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. How-to documentation is readily available. It’s well-suited for organizations that require mission-critical applications with high availability. Bugs and security vulnerabilities are identified more quickly.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource. Even with the broken Java stacks, I noticed a big difference: On Ubuntu, there's a massive amount of CPU time in a libjvm call: os::javaTimeMillis().

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability. What is sharding in MongoDB?

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SQL Performance

APRIL 23, 2019

In SQL Server 2012, grouped (vector) aggregation was able to use parallel batch-mode execution, but only for the partial (per-thread) aggregate. SQL Server 2014 added the ability to perform parallel batch-mode grouped aggregation within a single Hash Match Aggregate operator. instructions are available. Introduction.

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