Database Optimization

awnih7 years ago

Hello everyone,
I am starting this thread to start the discussion of "Database Optimization", in hopes of improving performance.

We have a database with 20 million+ locations, and query responses have been slowing down. I want to improve that using indices and other database optimization techniques and would like to hear what everyone has successfully tried and tested so far.

I'm using SQLServer, but a lot of the concepts can be used for other db servers for everyone to benefit.

Thank you,
Awni

Anton Tananaev7 years ago

All the required indexes are already implemented. 20 millions is not a big number for a properly configured SQL database. If queries are slowing down it probably means that your database engine is running out of resources, or misconfigured.