What Counts for a DBA: Baselines

• Louis Davidson (@drsql)

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  July 7, 2013 at 8:08 pm

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• Gary Varga

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  July 8, 2013 at 6:56 am

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  The same could be said for applications but it is even rarer to find statistics captured for applications, even services.

  Gaz

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• Damian Widera-396333

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  July 25, 2013 at 3:22 am

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  True - apps should inform about their perf counters.

  But in the other hand - it is not common 🙂

  Best regards

  Damian

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  Damian Widera
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• SQLRNNR

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  July 25, 2013 at 7:09 pm

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  Good advice from Louis.

  How can you really ever know that your system is truly performing worse if you have nothing to compare it to?

  Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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