The importance of "Working Set"

One of the things that I see cropping up pretty often is this thing called “working set”. After recently chipping in on another StackOverflow question on the subject of “What does it meant to fit ‘working set’ in RAM?”, I thought it was a good subject for a blog post. This is really just a copy and extension of my input on that question and focused in certain parts on MongoDB, but is also as relevant to other databases. [Read More]

The SQLBits VI Experience

I had high expectations about SQLBits VI and it certainly lived up to it! Not only did it have great speakers, who really know their stuff and have an effortless way of getting the information across, but it was also free. So it goes without saying that it was a popular event. There were 4 sessions going on at any one time with a theme of performance and scalability and plenty of choice across DBA, Dev and BI areas. [Read More]