Sometimes a simple question gets surprisingly interesting in a distributed database: How many rows are in each shard? In YugabyteDB, the physical […]
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Fixing Unintentionally Range-Sharded Tables in YugabyteDB
If you upgraded into the YugabyteDB 2024.1 era and enabled Enhanced PostgreSQL Compatibility Mode, there is an easy mistake to miss: You […]
Read MoreDemonstrating 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. […]
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