Performance Counters to Identify Memory Issues in MS SQL Database
While monitoring the MS SQL Server I suggest keeping an eye on Buffer Manager/Memory Manager counter which can help us in identifying the memory contention issues in the MSSQL Database. The memory...
View ArticleIdentify Wait Events in MS SQL 2005 that Impacts Performance of the Application
While working with MSSQL 2005, I suggest having an eye on the wait events of the database server. Wait events happening at the servers often at times are the main reasons as why we quite often see the...
View ArticleDeadlocks in MSSQL 2005 Explained
Have you ever seen the below message during your load testing assignment working in the Microsoft .Net world involving ASP.NET and MSSQL Server, Msg 1205, Level 13, State 51, Line 1 Transaction...
View ArticleKnow how shared is your server box and If Server runs with Default Settings
Working on the shared environments or clustered environment is quite a challenge and getting the best performance out of the servers requires that we understand as how servers are been designed or...
View ArticlePerformance,Dirty Reads ,Lost Updates and Locks
Recently I came across a very interesting issue, which I feel I should write about it. During load testing of web based application, I came across an issue where in response time for couple of the...
View ArticlePerformance Testing Web based Ajax Applications–Then Read this
From past couple of days,lot of people have asked me about Ajax,Ajax protocol and how to Load Test Ajaxified Applications. So I though let me write a short code and try explain my thoughts about this....
View ArticleShort note on using Indexes- MS SQL 2005
Most often whenever Performance Engineer detects some issues with regard to response time, the first thing the application team thinks as a fix is to check and add some more indexes to the columns in...
View ArticleHow to Identify Slow Running SQL Query in MYSQL 5.5x
From past couple of days I have also been playing around with MYSQL 5.5X Database doing some bit of writing queries, creating tables, indexes ,routines here and there for one of project. MYSQL database...
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