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Rank and filter performance metrics with top() function

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Monitor key Couchbase metrics

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VMDK versus RDM: Which One Do I Need for SQL Server?

03/26/14 When it comes to disk configuration options for virtualized servers running on VMware, you have two options: VMFS virtual file-based disk (VMDK) or a raw device mapping (R…

Multi-Threaded Replication in MySQL

03/17/14 For years, people lamented that MySQL’s replication was single-threaded. Peter, Vadim, and I griped about this in High Performance MySQL for two whole editions, as well as…

Performance Schema, Slow Query Log, and TCP Decoding

02/25/14 Peter Zaitsev posted Percona’s answer to the question, “why use the slow query log instead of the PERFORMANCESCHEMA tables to gather information about query execution and …

Understand AWS CloudWatch metrics and Datadog measurements

This article details how Datadog now supports Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams, enabling significantly faster ingestion of CloudWatch metrics – often within seconds instead of minu…

Hardware or Code? SQL Server Performance Examined

01/24/14 As DBAs with years of experience in a variety of environment between us, we each have seen that most database performance issues result not from lack of enough CPU power o…

A Tale of Two Memory Leaks in Go

01/15/14 In this post I’ll illustrate two ways I’ve accidentally caused slow but steady memory consumption in Go programs. The phrase “memory leak” isn’t really accurate, but I can…

How to Recover the Master Database in SQL Server 2012

01/14/14 In my seven years as a production DBA, I can count on one hand the number of times I have need to restore the master database as a result of a disaster. In other words, th…

Improve Java performance: Monitor JMX Metrics with Datadog

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Connect to Windows Azure Virtual Machine Using SSMS

12/18/13 In 2013, Microsoft made it available for customers to utilize virtual machines running in Windows Azure. This allowed customers to run an on-premises version of SQL Server…

Multitick: multiple-subscriber time.Ticker in Go

12/17/13 Many of our agent programs have several independent worker routines that all need to be timed on clock ticks, sometimes with a specific time offset. We recently open-sourc…