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You've tuned your queries, added indexes, and yet a simple join still crawls. The culprit might not be a missing index at all—it could be a missing or...
You've tuned your database, added indexes, and deployed a cache layer. Yet, every few minutes, your hot queries—the ones you expect to be instant—sudd...
You've tuned the indexes, rewritten the subqueries, and checked the execution plans. Yet the production database still slows to a crawl every Tuesday ...
Introduction: The Illusion of Speed and the Reality of ScaleIn my ten years of consulting with development teams, I've observed a universal pattern: a...
Indexes are the first line of defense against slow queries. Most teams invest heavily in index design: covering indexes, filtered indexes, column orde...