Handling large databases

Question

I have been working in a web project(asp.net) for around six months. The final product is about to go live. The project uses SQL Server as the database. We have done performance

Answer 1

That may not be the right decision. Identify all your DB interactions and profile them independently, then find the offending ones and strategize to maximize performance there. Also turning on the audit logs on your DB and mining them might provide better optimization points.