Analysis of PayPal’s Node-vs-Java benchmarks
12/09/13 I was interested in the data shown in PayPal’s blog post on switching from Java to Node.js, for two reasons. First, at a glance both sets of benchmark data looked very cle…
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Changing Default Database File Locations in SQL Server
12/06/13 When you create a database in SQL Server and do not specify a file location for your data and log files, SQL Server will rely on the default locations as defined in the se…
How to write Go packages coders will love
12/03/13 This post was featured in our July 2015 anthology of most popular SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) blog posts of all time. One of the patterns I’ve found in t…
5 Things You Didn’t Know About SQL Agent
11/27/13 Microsoft SQL Server comes with a boatload of additional components. One component is the SQL Agent. The purpose of the SQL Agent is to serve as a job scheduler. Many expe…
What Happens if I Shrink a Database in Windows Azure?
11/20/13 At some point in your career as a data professional, you are going to fill up an entire drive with data. It is not a question of “if,” but a matter of “when” this will hap…
Providing Exceptional Customer Service to Exceptional Customers
11/05/13 What is “exceptional” customer service? It’s difficult to define, but you know when you have received it. It is an experience in which a service representative helped chan…
Big-O Notation Made Simple
10/23/13 If you’re a programmer or computer scientist, you’re probably familiar with Big-O notation. It’s part of your foundational understanding of how complex a problem and/or al…
Improve SQL Server Performance by Looking at Plan Cache (Part 3)
10/03/13 You can use the information in the SQL Server plan cache to research performance issues and investigate opportunities for performance improvement. In this three-part artic…
Improve SQL Server Performance by Looking at Plan Cache (Part 2)
10/03/13 In this second part of a three-part article series, we’ll look at how to examine the plan cache to quickly identify plans that need tuning, including: Plans that have miss…
Improve SQL Server Performance by Looking at Plan Cache (Part 1)
10/03/13 The plan cache holds a great deal of information about the overall health of your database instance. You can use the plan cache to investigate current performance issues a…
100% Reproducible Builds in Go
09/10/13 This post was featured in our July 2015 anthology of most popular SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) blog posts of all time. One of the nice things about Go is …
Godaemon, a Library to Daemonize Go Apps
08/27/13 At SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor we have a specific need to daemonize one of our Go applications, which must safely run detached from terminals, with a working …