"It's slow." If you want to see a DBA's eyes roll to the back of his head, utter the words "it's slow". What, exactly, is slow? Seems it's our job to find out. Get the Facts "It takes for-EVER to create an order!" You can't fix what you...
Welcome to our first ProTop newsletter, where you'll find out what's new, tips and tricks and other cool ways to use both the free and commercial versions of ProTop. In this issue, we're going to start with some ProTop basics. Have any burning questions about ProTop...
If you are concerned about performance, the fundamental problem with SAN storage is that it is external and shared....
If you read Part I, you’ve already analyzed your data and designed your Type II storage areas and you’re ready to dump your existing data and load it into the new structure. If you’re still using Type I storage areas, this will probably be the...
Picture a Rubik’s cube in your mind: at the core is the holy grail of system performance, and every colored tile is a potential bottleneck preventing you from attaining that perfection. On one side, you find database issues, another side is the network, there are...
Congratulations! You finally decided to join the modern world and take advantage of Type II Storage Areas (SAII). Hey – better late than never. There’s a lot of old, out-of-date or just-plain-wrong information out there, so ignore all that stuff. I have conveniently digested some...
Over the past 10 or so years, the number of [AIX, HPUX, Solaris] to Linux migrations have been increasing steadily, along with the “safe” recommended maximum number of concurrent users. The reason is simple, of course: cost. Unless your OpenEdge application is serving thousands of...