How Database Performance Monitor Measures Queries
02/10/15 We often get questions about how we measure queries inside MySQL (and now PostgreSQL too). Many of these questions reveal assumptions about the metrics we provide and our …
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Distributed and Diverse: The New Reality of Modern Data Persistence
01/23/15 We create applications in an age of simple, powerful, flexible databases that do magic for us. There’s a large variety of modern databases that supply just what’s needed f…
Securing JSON APIs With Wrapper Objects
01/21/15 Security is a top priority. Leading companies such as Zappos, Dyn, and Etsy use Database Performance Monitor (DPM), a cloud-based database performance management service t…
Go’s Connection Pool, Retries, and Timeouts
01/19/15 This is a story of intermittent 500 Internal Server errors from APIs, that ended up being caused by a hardcoded constant in Go’s database/sql package. I’ll mostly spare yo…
Monitor MySQL Database Users with VividCortex
01/08/15 VividCortex now supports per-user metrics in Top Queries, so you can monitor MySQL database user activity in detail. By changing the Rank menu from Queries to Users you ca…
New reCaptcha support in angular-recaptcha
12/23/14 Google released a new reCaptcha that is “tough on bots, easy on humans.” It is really simple to use, and it has greatly improved the security against robots and other hack…
Find Queries That Lack Indexes
12/17/14 It’s an ancient tradition amongst MySQL DBAs to analyze slow query log files and sort the results by the so-called “index ratio” to find badly indexed queries. The “index …
In Case You Missed It – Building a Time-Series Database in MySQL
12/16/14 In this webinar, Baron Schwartz explains how VividCortex has used MySQL to support a large-scale, high-velocity time-series database in the AWS cloud. If you did not have …
MySQL Error Codes Out Of Context
12/11/14 In the wrong context, almost anything can be funny, and MySQL’s error codes are no exception. A few weeks ago, things got a little loopy as we discovered some definitions …
Why Data Performance Monitor is Cheaper Than DIY Open-Source
12/04/14 Talk to someone who runs monitoring systems at a company with more than a few servers and you’ll quickly find out that scaling their monitoring systems is far from a minor…
Running SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor Via An HTTP Proxy
12/01/14 Many of SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor’s customers have strict policies about Internet access from and to their database servers. As a longtime consultant who wo…
How Exponentially Weighted Moving Averages Work
11/25/14 We use exponentially weighted moving averages (EWMAs) quite a bit in a few algorithms. They’re one of the tricks everyone should have in their toolbox for cheaply approxim…