SQL query optimization

Overview

The data amount your systems process is rapidly growing?
Queries to database hang Server for minutes making time-to-response unacceptable for Client PCs?
There are two alternatives that Companies usually consider in this case:

1. Increase power of Server(s)
2. Tune RDBMS Server and optimize SQL queries

First option is usually related to considerable spendings on hardware and Server software. For example, if your Database Server currently has 1 processor and MS SQL Server installed and you are planning to upgrade it to 4 processor system you will probably need to change your motherboard, purchase 3 new processors, more RAM and upgrade your MS SQL Server license. However even after that you may get only 4 times productivity increasing as a result.
From another hand, another alternative - tuning your RDBMS (especially if we are talking about Oracle Server), improving database structure and optimizing SQL queries you may even on your current hardware get the 10-20 times and even more productivity increasing! Probably, your database just needs adding several indexes on certain tables/fields, restructuring of few SQL queries - and response time will decrease from 2-3 minutes to 7 seconds (that's an example from the real-life case).
Please think about it when consider the two alternatives above.

Softage, Inc develops data access middleware solutions to provide optimization for SQL queries. Also we can optimize your existing SQL queries in MS SQL Server, Oracle RDMS or any other ANSI SQL based RDBMS in case your data amount rapidly grows and you have unacceptable performance break downs.