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

You are right to do whatever works.
... as long as you realise that there may be a price to pay later. It sounds like you are thinking about this anyway.

Things to check:

Deadlocks

• Are all processes accessing tables in the same order?

Slowness

• Are any queries doing tablescans?
  • Check for large joins (more than 4 tables)
  • Check your indeces

See my other posts on general performance tips:

• How do you optimize tables for specific queries?
• Favourite performance tuning tricks