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Day: August 20, 2021

From API Call to ML Services Prediction

Published 2021-08-20 by Kevin Feasel

Tomaz Kastrun continues a series:

From the previous two blog posts:

– Creating REST API for reading data from Microsoft SQL Server in web browser

– Writing Data to Microsoft SQL Server from web browser using REST API and node.js

We have looked into the installation process of Node.js, setup of Microsoft SQL Server and made couple of examples on reading the data from database through REST API and how to insert data back to database.

In this post, we will be looking the R predictions using API calls against a sample dataset.

Click through to see it in action.

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Projecting Disk Space Available

Published 2021-08-20 by Kevin Feasel

Constantine Kokkinos predicts the future:

The first question I wanted to model out was a bigger issue with on-premises databases – when are we going to run out of storage?

Back in the day I’d cheat with msdb backups, comparing compressed sized to actuals, and moving on. However I don’t have a historical reference for Stack Overflow… so what can I do?

Taking a look at the tables we see a commonality in many tables – CreationDate! It looks like the rows faithfully are stamped when they are created.

Constantine does at the end hit on something we tend to forget: most operations in life aren’t quite linear. We often get lucky in that certain stretches are close enough to be linear that we can model them that way, but even in this dataset, you can see the effects of polynomial growth slowly build up. Still, this is a good way of taking us through what an analysis and projection can look like.

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Changing the Slow Query Log Threshold in RDS

Published 2021-08-20 by Kevin Feasel

John McCormack wants to know about those slow queries:

The slow query log will record all queries which are above the threshold level. The default value is 10 (seconds) but you can set it higher or lower depending on your requirements. It is useful for finding slow queries and allows you to pick out candidates for tuning.

If you set the threshold too low, it can increase I/O overhead on your instance and use a lot of valuable disk space. If you set it too high, it might not capture enough useful information.

This is a setting in AWS Relational Database Services and mimics functionality in MySQL

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Making a Column Chart Better

Published 2021-08-20 by Kevin Feasel

Meagan Longoria improves a visual:

There are some easy opportunities to improve the readability of this chart, so I thought I would use it as an example of how small improvements can have a big impact on a fairly simple chart. I recreated the chart (as best I could) in Power BI and then made two revised versions.

Read on to see what Meagan did and get some advice on the subject.

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When Did That SQL Server Start?

Published 2021-08-20 by Kevin Feasel

Chad Callihan breaks out the stopwatch:

When you are troubleshooting query performance, it’s important to consider when SQL Server last restarted. Each time SQL Server restarts, buffer pool and plan cache get wiped out. This can play a big part in how you approach an issue.

You want to know how much history you have to work with. Not seeing much data in plan cache? Maybe SQL Server restarted recently. Parameter sniffing issues that you were seeing earlier today are now suddenly “fixed?” SQL Server could have restarted between then and now. Let’s take a quick look a few ways to review how long SQL Server has been up and running.

Click through for several techniques. I’ve always checked the tempdb startup time in sys.databases, myself, but that’s not the only way.

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