Database Performance Monitoring Tools“Performance Monitoring Laser Focused”October, 2010

Outline

• About Database Architechs• Our Services• Our Products• Our Clients• Clients’ Testimonials• Involvements

Experience:• USA (20 years) • France (12 years)

Database/Data Architecture:• Sybase• Oracle• Microsoft SQL Server• DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and others …

Database talent pool:• Top database experts from around the globe• Acclaimed Authors• Speakers to many events and conferences

Database Tools: • Performance & Tuning Tools - Highly graphical (Sybase, Oracle and

MS SQL Server)Database Education & Training

Operations

Paul BertucciManaging PrincipalMaster Degree UC Berkeley

• Expert Database Architect• Data design expert with Dr Peter Chen• SQL Server Unleashed series main author.• Sybase Curriculum author

Thierry GerardinManaging DirectorMaster of Computer Sciences ESI• Company growth leader• Sybase Certified Professional• SQL Server Unleashed 2005 Contributor• Sybase Perf. & Tuning Contributor

Core Team

Chris GallelliPrincipal ConsultantMBA Union College, NY

• Database Architecture/Design expert• MCP Certified• SQL Server Unleashed series Co-Author.

Yves MoisonSQL Shot Architect and Designer

Mikael BonnevieSales & Business DevelopmentMBA From UCSF

Database Architechs global consulting team has delivered hundreds of high scale, high impact database, data architecture, high availability and performance and tuning engagements.

Our strengths are:• Database Design and Data Analysis/Modeling• Distributed Data Architectures/Data Replication• Database Encryption/Security Frameworks• High Availability, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity • Database and SQL Performance & Tuning• Data Standards and Governance• Delivery on time and within budget• Extreme Quality of deliverables• Knowledge Transfer and Education

Strengths

Architecture/Database Consulting:• Website Architecture• Cloud/Virtual Enterprise Architecture• Mobile Applications Architecture/Development• Database Architecture• Database Design• Data Modeling & Data Analysis• Database & SQL Performance & Tuning• Distributed Data & Data Replication • Data Integration & Transformation• Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence• Database High Availability• Master Data Management• Metadata Management• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity• Database Security & Compliance• Database Education & Training• Database Performance & Tuning tools

High Availability Consulting:• HA Assessments• HA Design/Architecture• HA Build-outs• Mirroring, Snapshots …

Enterprise Architecture: • EA Tools• EA Organization, Roles, Responsibilities• Architecture

Education and Training:• SQL training• Data Modeling• Performance & Tuning training• Data Replication training• Physical Database Design• Multi-dimensional OLAP• Process Modeling

Consulting Services

Our services are database focused and include inexpensive 4-day assessments moving you down the path to:• Reducing your overall costs. • Achieving high availability and scalability. • Meeting or exceeding your service level

requirements. • Allowing you to put off server and storage

purchase because of better utilization of what you have.

• Enabling server and database consolidations. • Using our data expertise surgically for short

bursts with highly skilled and experienced data professionals.

• Optimally designing and architecting your data to meet your company's needs.

Packaged Services

Using our Performance & Tuning Tools and a proven methodology, we are extending our database-focused services:• Available through a secured connection• Top database experts available as needed using a pool of hours

• Remote Physical Database Design:We have designed and deployed all kinds of systems, from OLTP databases to Decision support systems (Data warehouse, Business Intelligence and OLAP cube technologies). Our intervention quite often involves using advanced techniques such as data replication, clustering, and database mirroring.

• Remote Performance and Tuning:As part of any Performance & Tuning engagement, we use a detailed performance and tuning methodology that has been developed over many years to offer predefined deliverables that maximize the end-result of our customers.Typically, our results include an improvement in database throughput ranging from 100% to 750% as well as a massive reduction in response times.

Remote Services

Monitoring for 3 major databases:

Database Performance Monitoring Tools

for MS SQL ServerIncluding 2008 R2

for Sybase ASEFrom 11.5 to 15.5

for Oracle DatabaseFrom 8i to 11g

Strengths:• Designed and developed by the top Database

experts• Highly “Graphic-Oriented” interactive design

drill-down through the graphs!• Easily isolate performance issues in seconds• Optimization strategies can be implemented

and verified• Safe “production” monitoring in real time• Performance counters utilized include OS level

Database Performance Monitoring Tools

Strengths:• Plug-and-play - no change to your IT

architecture• Monitor, Isolate, Drill-down approach• Also runs in off-line mode with easy data

export• Track Record – 10 years of SQL and

Database performance and tuning tools• Log only needed and comprehensive

information (DABs can set up what and when queries are recorded)

• Work on the log files with SQL Shot with the same features and ease as in the live mode.

Video Demonstration

Database Performance Monitoring Tools

• Improve Database and DBA efficiency for Performance & Tuning tasks• Efficiency and accuracy improvement when looking for performance issues• Less time spent looking for performance issues = more time to diagnose and fix

these issues• Log performance issues, keep track records and export for reporting

BenefitsCreated by DBAs

for DBAs

Stop wasting time!• NO gigabytes of raw

data • Immediate isolation of

performances issues• Very simple and easy to

use user interface

Focused on what we do best:• Designed and developed by the top experts

DBA • Database performance monitoring• Monitor the SQL queries execution• Laser Focused on Performance issues solving

Efficient:• Log only needed and comprehensive

information• Highlights the Performance issues• No gigabytes of raw data, pinpoint issues• Monitor, Isolate, Drill-down approach• DBAs can open log files with SQL Shot and

have the same features and options as in the live mode

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Easy to use:• Ergonomic interface• Highly “Graphic-Oriented” • Drill-down through the graphs!• Easy to install• Easy to configure Performance alarms• Plug-and-play - No change to your IT

architecture• Off-line mode with easy data export

Fast, time saving tool:• Safe “production” monitoring in real time • Scan conducted < 1 second• Very Granular• A new Database monitoring setup

< 1 minute

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Non-intrusive:• Low Overhead, 5-8% of the resources• Using shared memory• Highlight of the targeted information only

History of Performance issues on demand :• Search among past issues• Easy tracking of past and present issues• Scheduled the recording of future monitoring

Affordable:• Free trial 30-day version• License starting at $300• No overhead costs

Innovative Tool

Database PerformanceMonitoring Tools Download

Healthcare• AGIS Network• Breg International• Actelion

Finance• Visa International• Bank of America• Charles Schwab• Merrill Lynch• Wells Fargo

Insurance• CSAA

Education• Alliance Francaise• Aplia• Thomson Learning

Retail• Safeway Stores

And many others around the world …

High Tech Industry• Apple Computers• Applied Materials• Cisco• Intel• Juniper Networks• Metalinc• Silicon Graphics• Sybase• Symantec Corporation• Toshiba Computers• Veritas

Automotive Industry• Nissan Motors• Honda Motors

Others• Diligent Board Member• Federal Express• France Amerique• PG&E• Robert Half

Clients

Services Partners:• Fusion Storm• Samsung Services• Ascent Services Group• Computer Science Corporation (CSC)• Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGEY)• i2 Technologies • Collaborative Consulting (Boston)

Joint Proposals, as a named sub, and as augmentation

High Tech Partners:• Diginome• HP / Mercury• Microsoft• ParAccel• Solid Data• Sybase

Partners

We are using Database Architechs' Performance and Tuning tools in all our production and test environments. Thanks to these tools we can anticipate and fix any performance issues. Isolating and fixing performance issues is now 16 times faster (down from 2 days to 1 hour). We can also log all the database performance metrics and information to isolate any past performance issue and produce some monthly reports on specific metrics. In addition, Database Architechs Performance and Tuning tools are helping us in identifying users' behavior, anticipating the required tuning to optimize response time.

We are using Database Architechs' Performance and Tuning tools for the following: 1) Monitor applications' response time before moving to production. 2) Isolate poor performing SQL queries, stored procedures, triggers ... on production databases. Thanks to Database Architechs' Performance and Tuning tools we've been able to improve SQL queries performances from few minutes to few seconds. Database Architechs' Performance and Tuning tools has also helped us to isolate performance issues during our database migration process.

I'm using Database Architechs' Performance and Tuning tools since several years. I appreciate very much these tools for real-time database server monitoring. I appreciate particularly: - The GUI, to visualize and isolate any performance issue in seconds. - How easy and fast it is, to install the tools and start monitoring any database server. - The logging feature, to analyze past performance issues. - The batch mode, to log performance metrics automatically based on events.

Clients’ Testimonials

Overall send rate 41 % faster (2005 vs. 2008)Overall restore rate 52% faster (2005 vs. 2008)

Overall availability topology inherits the restore rate ~ 50% more available

Example:• 743 ms Transaction (in 2005 mirroring configuration)• 379 ms Transaction (in 2008 mirroring configuration)

In failover, what would have been 20 seconds before mirror becomes principal turns into

roughly 8-10 seconds (or 3 seconds turns into 1.5 seconds, so on).

Database Mirroring BenchmarkSQL Server 2005 vs. 2008

Overall send rate 26 % faster (2008 Conventional versus SSD)Overall restore rate 17% faster (2008 Conventional versus SSD)

Overall Database mirroring topology garners ~ 20% more availability

Examples:10 min 17 seconds to complete• 4:32:37am 4:43:00am (principal send’s)• 4:32:48 am 4:43:05am (mirror restore’s)

8 min 38 seconds to complete• 3:45:19am 3:53:20am (principal send’s)• 3:45:20am 3:53:20am (mirror restore’s)

100% Transparent (zero DB & Application changes) !

Solid State Devices Benchmark

All of these Authors are Consultants at Database Architechs

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