If you upgraded into the YugabyteDB 2024.1 era and enabled Enhanced PostgreSQL Compatibility Mode, there is an easy mistake to miss: You […]
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Demonstrating Hot Shard Detection (and Why a Tablet Can Refuse to Split)
You may see a tablet growing large and repeatedly attempting to split… only to fail with errors like: TABLET_SPLIT_KEY_RANGE_TOO_SMALL Failed to detect […]
Read MoreExploring Range Tablet Placement (and Which Split Point Created Each Tablet)
In a previous tip, we explored how yb_tablet_metadata makes it easy to see tablet leadership and replica placement across a YugabyteDB cluster. […]
Read MoreFaster exact row counts in YugabyteDB using range sharding and tablet-level parallelism
Exact row counts are common in migrations, validation, and operational checks. In YugabyteDB, SELECT COUNT(*) is correct and already distributed, but it […]
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