Tag Archives: benchmarking

CURSORs and WHILE-Loops

Yes, I know this is a giant (some might say pointless, and I wouldn’t totally disagree) can of worms I’m opening here, but stay with me for a minute. Why? We were discussing this at work a few months ago, and I was one of those people who followed “conventional wisdom” which says that SQL [...]

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Benchmarking I/O: The test rig

Work has been a little crazy lately, but I’ve still been wanting to do some I/O performance testing since we’re due to get some new servers in soon and I wanted to be able to compare apples with oranges. So this past weekend I decided to combine something I’ve been meaning to learn more about [...]

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