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Performance Tuning
Corporate data continues to grow in size and complexity. This means that you must take regular action to ensure optimal data access times and achieve maximum SQL server performance. Fortunately, SQL Server includes many features and enhancements to optimise performance across all of its areas of functionality through performance tuning, but this is not a straightforward task.
The performance of SQL Server is dependent upon a number of variables such as hardware, the workload, number of clients and their usage patterns. All these factors are interrelated, so a technique that may solve one problem could actually reduce performance in another situation.
This means performance should be evaluated from several different perspectives. Each perspective tells a different section of the complete performance story, but together they paint a detailed performance picture of the whole system.
What we offer
In many cases performance tuning is a series of compromises. This requires extensive experience and a solid working knowledge of SQL server to undertake. SQL Server Consulting provides a complete service to ensure that your databases are able to perform at optimum levels. These include:
• Index tuning - we can help you to take full advantage of SQL Server's built-in indexing capabilities to deliver enhanced performance for your applications and reports
• Query analysis - many performance problems can be traced back to badly written queries: we can identify problem areas and supply processor-efficient queries and stored procedures
• Hardware auditing - your database may be suffering from inefficient RAID configurations or slow network links. We can ensure everything is performing optimally at the hardware level
• Constant monitoring - make use of Windows and SQL Server monitoring tools to recognise and troubleshoot potential causes of errors and bottlenecks before they occur
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