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Watched it and it was excellent.
I will start using 0x.tools soon
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I am watching your 2024 p99 conf video right now. Tools look great. When using xtop is there an option to present an aggregated result across many samples?
October 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It has yet to show up on the "on demand" section of the web site
October 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Is there an exception for those of us still traumatized by that Bucky Dent home run? While I haven't been a Red Sox fan, long ago when I watched baseball I could not stand the Yankees.

Bucky Dent does not get to hit home runs in big games.
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
And results from a large server with high concurrency (40 connections). The possible regression mostly reproduces here but I am still uncertain that this is a regression.

smalldatum.blogspot.com/2025/09/post...
Postgres 18 beta3, large server, sysbench
This has performance results for Postgres 18 beta3, beta2, beta1, 17.5 and 17.4 using the sysbench benchmark and a large server. The working...
smalldatum.blogspot.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
And then there is the lawsuit.
August 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Oracle had fun PR during the lawsuit. They put up a billboard on 101 with text like:
Helped wanted:
* Oracle - developers
* Informix - lawyers to sue developers
August 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Long ago I was sued after changing employers from Informix to Oracle. It was quickly settled -- we re-signed employment contracts with Informix and went to work at Oracle.
August 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In other news, DocumentDB was donated to the Linux Foundation is backed by Microsoft and Amazon. Maybe MongoDB should focus on that competitive threat instead of FerretDB, for example, consider adding a cost-based optimizer to MongoDB:
opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/08...
DocumentDB joins the Linux Foundation - Microsoft Open Source Blog
Learn how we’re carving out a path where document databases are open, interoperable, and standardized—built with flexibility and reliability.
opensource.microsoft.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I didn’t think it was possible for any provider to be worse than ESPN+
August 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Need a version of this for MongoDb
August 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Is OCC in MongoDB raising errors per statement or during commit?
August 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM