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In a previous blog entry, I started to share some Tips & Tricks about the installation and configuration of some QlikView components/software. I will try to complete this list with some other interesting things to know. On this blog entry, I will try to explain how to enable the Task Performance Summary, to debug or at least enable the Communication…
Last night, I had an interesting discussion with one of my MVP French friend that faces a weird situation where a query that uses a statement level RECOMPILE hint produces an execution plan that disappointed him. He told me we can simulate the same situation by using the AdventureWorks database and Sales.SalesOrderHeader table. First, we have to add a nonclustered…
Which DBA has not yet face a performance problem issued by several blocked processes? In reality, I’m sure a very little number of them. Troubleshooting a blocked issue scenario is not always easy and may require to use some useful tools to simplify this hard task. A couple of months ago, I had to deal this scenario at one of…
For several months now, I’ve been working on some QlikView projects which is a quite interesting discovery for me. Generally, these projects are limited to the management of QlikView at the administrator level (installation, upgrade, configuration of the QlikView Management Console, aso…) but I was still able to accumulate some knowledge that I want to share with you today. In…
I didn’t have the opportunity to post a new entry about Alfresco in this blog for a long time now, so I will fix this! In this blog entry, I will talk about a bug I encountered a few months ago. I resolved it but I, so far, not had the time to share my knowledge with you. I. Description…
A couple of days ago, I encountered an interesting case with a customer concerning a rebuild index operation on a datawarehouse environment. Let me introduce the situation: a “usual DBA day” with an almost usual error message found in your dedicated mailbox: “The transaction log for database ‘xxx’ is full”. After checking the concerned database, I notice that its transaction…
This is the second part of my previous blog concerning rendition creation ratio between two ADTS servers. In this part I will talk about another way of getting this ratio. In addition this one doesn’t require to enable auditing and this way is preferable concerning database space footprint. DMR_CONTENT This method uses objects that already exist in the docbase and…
Last week I gave a workshop about SQL Server 2014 and the new features. The first day we worked on new In-memory OLTP and different topics such as the new internal storage, the new transaction processing behavior or the new checkpointing process. During this day, one of the attendees asked me about the memory management with In-Memory OLTP feature. It…
This blog aims to make a performance comparison between the different MySQL versions/editions and also comparing the differents MySQL forks such as Percona Server and MariaDB. Indeed number of improvements as been done to innodb storage engine in the last MySQL versions. You can find below some of the performance improvements applied to InnoDB these last years (non exhaustive list):…
Today at the #ukoug_tech14 I had the chance to attend to the Christo Kutrovky’s session @kutrovsky (Pythian) about “Measuring Performance in Oracle Solaris & Oracle Linux”. This session aimed to present how to measure system utilization in the Linux and Oracle Solaris operating systems and how to use these information for tuning and capacity planning. During this session we had…
I recently realized there are very few information about multiple ADTS instances installation and management. And we have a customer which has two ADTS running for one docbase. I therefore decided to write a couple of blog posts on “Multiple ADTS”, since it is likely to be helpful for someone in the same situation. Rendition processing & ADTS instance…
During a migration from D2-Config 3.0 to D2-Config 4.1, we have encountered 2 issues. In order to have a clean installation and the insurance of being able to backup the configuration, we have decided to perform a full config export on D2-Config 3.0 and a full import with a configuration reset to D2-Config 4.1. 1. Configuration export The first issue…
