In live from the JSS2015 (Journée SQL Server 2015) in Paris, we saw that the CTP3.1 has been available in the night of these 2 days. One new feature available for this release in the T-SQL domain is COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS.
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It didn’t made it into the upcoming PostgreSQL 9.5 release but it will probably be coming in 9.6: Parallel sequential scans. If you take a look at the development documentation some new parameters showed up: max_parallel_degree: The maximum degree of parallelism for an individual parallel operation. parallel_tuple_cost: Sets the planner’s estimate of the cost of transferring a tuple from a parallel worker process to another process. The default is 0.1 parallel_setup_cost: Sets the planner’s estimate…
The last posts introduced the logging system, pg_stat_statements, pg_activity and pgcluu. This post will look at POWA: PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer. For getting the most out of POWA the following extension should be installed in the PostgreSQL instance you want to monitor: pg_stat_statements (see last post) pg_stat_kcache: gathers statistics about reads and writes done by the file system layer pg_qualstats: gathers statistics of predicates found in where statements and join clauses btree_gist: provides GiST index operator…
The last posts introduced the logging system, pg_stat_statements and pg_activity. All of these can be used to monitor sql statements the PostgreSQL server is executing. In this post I’ll look into pgcluu: PostgreSQL Cluster utilization! This is a more complete monitoring solution as it is not only focused on sql statements but gives you information about the database cluster itself and other useful stuff. All you need to run pgcluu is a modern perl distribution…
The last posts looked at how the logging system and the pg_stat_statements extension can be used to monitor sql statements in PostgreSQL. This post will introduce pg_activity which is very similar to htop. There are some dependencies which need to be installed before we can start installing pg_activity. The first one is python. As I am on a redhat based distribution this is quite easy: [root@oel7 ~] yum install -y python Then we need to…
The last post looked into how you can monitor queries using the logging system. This post will introduce pg_stat_statements. pg_stat_statements is a module that needs to be loaded and is not available in the default configuration. Loading it is quite easy. Create the extension as usual: postgres@oel7:/home/postgres/ [PG6] sqh Null display is “NULL”. Timing is on. psql (9.5alpha2) Type “help” for help. (postgres@[local]:4448) [postgres] > create extension pg_stat_statements; CREATE EXTENSION Time: 281.765 ms (postgres@[local]:4448) [postgres]…
When developing an application as well as when the application is in production there is the need to identify long running queries. In Oracle one tool you might use for that is the SQL Monitor. In this post I’ll look into what PostgreSQL provides in this area. PostgreSQL has a very strong logging system. This system can be used to log many, many server messages as well as information about sql queries. To enable to…
With SQL Server 2016, I’m nicely surprised by the addition of IF EXISTS directly in the T-SQL command DROP. Before this new option, all queries are written with IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys….) DROP object. I have quickly tested just for 2 drop commands(See List of available objects below): one for a table one for a column in a table
In my previous post, I talked about the Lifecycle of Alfresco Nodes. You may have noticed that I tried to insert in my explanations some elements that are specific to databases (tables, fields, aso…). These elements are quite essential to prepare a post like this one: more database oriented. I already explained what exactly are the consequences on the database side when a node is removed and I will try in this post to share some useful…
Azure DocumentDB is a documentary database service and as like its name suggests, it is aMicrosoft Azure Cloud service. Since the last summer, developers have access to this new service, and now it is available for all. The Redmond Company offers for the first time a “NoSQL” database. This is not the only service that has come; it is associated to Azure Search, a full text search service. Why NoSQL? Is first and foremost…