Sql Server Performance Tuning
Most modern software systems and applications rely upon a underlying (often shared) database. If the database is poorly structured, incorrectly
indexed, or simply not designed with heavy usage in mind, it can slow down - often over time, as more and more data is added.
As your applications slow down, you spend more time waiting for them to complete your requests - time which is wasted. With our flexible
performance tuning services, you can accelerate application performance,
and spend more time concentrating on the business at hand.
Just imagine, you pay an employee £6.00 an hour, and they perform a task once an hour, using a software application.
If this task takes 5 minutes longer than necessary, it has cost you upto £4.00 a day - more than £1000.00 a year.
Often, simple processes can be speeded up dramatically - reducing run times from minutes to a few seconds or less - with an immediately noticeable
reduction in wasted time for your business.
How will you speed up my database?
We use a number of different techniques to achieve database optimisation - but the first task undertaken is a detailed analysis of
the system, and an evaluation of current performance. This allows us to make
performance recommendations and to indicate where the problems lie.
In some cases, it is as simple as rewriting one or two SQL queries, but in other cases there can be hardware issues, poorly planned indexes or serious underlying
design problems causing poor performance. We always work to a firm set of Sql Server best practices,
and our initial analysis will also give you guidelines to help you avoid performance problems in the future.
A high proportion of websites rely on databases to manage or provide some of their functionality - and the same rules apply. Infact, the benefits from
putting your eCommerce website (or other customer facing system)
through performance tuning analysis could be even more pronounced.
If your website is keeping customers waiting longer than it needs to, you could be losing their business for good.
The results of performance tuning vary wildly, depending upon the issues which are present - in severe cases, remedial
work can produce dramatic results. In some cases, we have seen systems with poorly written queries upon tables with incorrect indexes speed up by factors of
100 times or more once the schema has been corrected, and the queries restructured.
In other cases, the results are more subtle, but can still add up to a significant saving in time when applied to an entire system. As with all the
development services which we offer, we are flexible and will always offer quotes on a no-obligation basis.