SQL Server Optimization

Improving the performance of the SQL environment and optimising total costs.

The service is tailored to the customer’s environment, business criticality and objectives. It may focus on a specific performance issue, a particular service, or, more broadly, cover the entire SQL environment.

We measure the actual load on the environment, identify factors that impair performance, and optimise the environment to utilise capacity more efficiently. The aim is to improve performance whilst reducing unnecessary infrastructure, capacity and licence costs.

The service includes, for example:

• measurement of current performance and load
• Identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks
• optimisation of slow and resource-intensive queries
• optimisation of indices and settings
• Optimising the use of CPU, memory and storage resources
• optimisation of workloads and schedules
• correctly sizing capacity in line with actual needs
• identifying opportunities for consolidation
• identifying opportunities to optimise licence and infrastructure costs
• validation of the impact of the changes made
• forecasting capacity and cost trends
• an operational model for continuous performance and cost optimisation

The customer receives:
A faster and more stable SQL environment that utilises capacity appropriately. The service provides a fact-based overview of where costs can be reduced without compromising on performance or service levels. The service helps to reduce unnecessary licence and infrastructure costs and ensures that the environment continues to operate appropriately and efficiently in the future.