Performance tuning done by adjusting database parameters or physical layout of the database.

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Configuring PostgreSQL for read performance

Our system write a lots of data (kind of Big Data system). The write performance is good enough for our needs but the read performance is really too slow. The primary key (constraint) structure is ...
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Tuning advisor with Extended events?

With SQL traces I was able to analyze them with Database Engine Tuning Advisor to obtain basic recommendations for perf. tuning(missing indexes, statistics,...). Now, with SQL 2012 and Extended ...
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Slow SSRS Report in production

I have an SSRS report which gets its data by firing a series of stored procedures. Now the report is timing out big time when run in production, yet when I pull down the prod database and restore to ...
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Is my.cnf for mysql 5.5 is suitable and well tuned for below hardware spec?

My Hardware Spec Technology: Ivy Bridge CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1245v2 Intel Smart Cache: 8MB Cores / Threads: 4 / 8 Frequency: 3.4GHz+ / 3.8GHz Turbo Boost RAM: 32 GB DDR3 Hard disk: 2x 2TB SATA3 Raid 1 ...
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What causes InnoDB to write 100% more pages while slowing down answering queries?

I have a somewhat big database server: 4 processors, 32 cores, 288GB RAM, 2 ethernet cards bounded together, 2 independent RAID controller cards with 1GB cache each, 24 2.5" disks, being 8 SAS, ...
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How to tell if database tuning is fruitful (PostgreSQL)

As a DBA, I regularly observe my database, tune up some queries (either getting the programmers to re-write it or add index or update statistics if that's what is needed, etc). I also tune up the ...
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PostgreSQL can't start after tuning some options

I'm having some issues with "too many clients" and I tried to change the max_connections param (currently 100). I tried to set some value like 300, but when I restart the service, I got this ...
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sp_setapprole taking 100 - 200 ms [closed]

SQL Server 2008 SP1 here. We have a machine where sp_setapprole calls take more than 100ms and they are done many times per user operation on an application. The developer says that in his setup, ...
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Need help with long running query

UPDATE: Adding a clustered index to each work table covering all fields reduced the query run times to su-bsecond. I consider this question closed. Thanks for taking the time to read this post - ...
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Slow Query Gets Even Slower After Indexing

I have a MySQL database with just one table containing 8 million records. I need to query the table to find a single record that matches a specific number: select * from my_table where ...
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Oracle User Profile for REST API

What sort of profile would you recommend for an Oracle user that is manifested through a RESTful API; particularly where there will be a lot of asynchronous requests? So we're talking about a ...
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How to change page size in an existing sybase database

I have an existing database with 1 kb page size i want to increase that to 16kb and increase cache to take advantage of my memory for best performance. sybase documentations said you can't change page ...
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Could Oracle ORA-08103 'object no longer exists' error be caused by size of undo_retention parameter?

Had a once-a-day long running data warehousing procedure that I had written that was failing about 50% of the time. Logs were showing ORA-08103 'object no longer exists'. ORA-12012: error on auto ...
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PostgreSQL performance degradation over time on a write intensive db

I have observed a weird situation that over time the performance of a query (a combination of queries explained below) degrades, meaning at the start of testing (for a few minutes) the time of the ...
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Find least recently used mysql table index

I am cleaning up duplicate indices from (innodb)tables in a mysql database. The database has about 50 tables. While I can check for duplicate keys using pt-duplicate-key-checker, I was wondering if ...

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