Database Optimization Tool and Techniques
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Experienced DBAs know a prevalent source of database performance issues is poorly written queries and inefficient indexes. For DBAs in need of quick and efficient tuning, an automated database optimization tool can be a game changer.
SolarWinds® Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) offers response time monitoring for rapid analysis of SQL statements to help you identify the root cause of performance problems and provide reliable tuning advice for your SQL database.
Fix queries running in production by using database optimization tools
In traditional database analysis, application performance is often put off until the deployment phase, which can be too late. Fast access to query performance on production servers incorporates application performance in the development cycles, so you can more easily optimize database performance.
Database Performance Analyzer is built to monitor development, test, and production servers with less than a 1% load. With the DPA dashboard, DBAs can more easily visualize the production database to understand how code is performing.
Improve resource provisioning for database performance optimization
With performance optimization database tools, you can better avoid extraneous hardware costs. Database Performance Analyzer can help align resource provisioning with performance, giving users the database optimization techniques to help avoid unnecessary hardware recommendations.
DPA is also built to collate SQL statement data around the clock and can help rank priorities based on response time. It also offers guidance on ways to improve database performance — which often doesn’t involve purchasing new hardware.
Automate database monitoring with DPA REST API
Database Performance Analyzer is designed to use DPA REST API to automate database optimization through each step of your monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution process. DPA REST API can offer real-time analysis of your holistic database structure based on an analysis of wait times. Because it uses agentless architecture, DPA REST API doesn’t require additional agent installations for individual nodes. DPA REST API can allow for licenses and registration on SQL Server, MySQL, Azure SQL, and more.
Find SQL queries
Speed up troubleshooting efforts or accelerate mean time to innocence by narrowing down query performance analysis. DPA allows you to search for specific SQL queries using the application name, user, and host as well as portions of SQL statements such as table or column names. You can then troubleshoot the root cause by viewing wait time details, executions, and other key performance metrics. Having this information available allows you to narrow your focus to diagnose performance problems associated with a particular time frame, user, or application, resulting in faster resolution.
What is database optimization?
Database optimization is based on a thorough understanding of your query functionality. In database performance optimization, application performance and database efficiency are understood through the lens of query wait times. To improve expensive queries, DBAs typically use a variety of manual methods to fix the details of your query or to rearrange the structure of the index itself.
For a large network with complex database operations, however, manual database optimization can be subject to inefficiency and human error. Automated database optimization techniques are built to add precision and speed to your query revisions. As any DBA knows, efficiently correcting expensive queries can drastically improve functionality for both your application server and your database server.
With automated database optimization, you can monitor performance issues, get alerts based on automated wait time analysis, and use machine learning to help automate troubleshooting. Automating your database optimization techniques ultimately allows you to proactively tune inefficient queries and identify trends that will let your database run smoothly.
How to optimize SQL database performance
With automated database performance techniques, SQL Server functionality is no longer at the mercy of manual tuning and indexing. There isn’t just one plan of attack for optimizing database performance—full coverage should address query wait time and resource provisioning.
With SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, you can cover all your bases with an automated, API-based tool to guide you through each step of the optimization process.
The focus for database performance optimization is straightforward—it’s about managing database metrics to meet an optimal query wait time. Query wait time analytics can indicate expansive information about your database performance at large. Not only does an inefficient query impact your server functionality, but a detailed diagnosis of your slow query can help you fix disparate issues in your database you might not have otherwise noticed.
Long wait times aren’t the only issue. A successful database performance optimization tool can also flag wait times that are too short. Short queries might be missing crucial information affecting your database performance even more than expensive queries would do.
Why is database optimization important?
An inefficient query can wreak havoc on both your application server and your database server. To maintain customer and employee trust in your organization, businesses should understand the important role of database management in ensuring reliable application and server functionality.
For businesses using SQL Server, using database optimization techniques for SQL Server can help provide complete detection, analysis, and problem-solving for your system. By analyzing and troubleshooting blocking sessions, deadlocks, and other query issues, you can more easily ensure your user experience is more reliable. Issue-free data retrieval can also help improve security and efficiency, allowing you to save money over time.
Database optimization can also help you understand the relationships among different resources in your SQL Server—not just your queries. With diverse system metrics based on query wait time analysis, database optimization for SQL Server can help you identify deadlock victims and survivors, VMware metrics, and database server metrics.
How to improve a database
The key to database optimization techniques is the tuning process. Tuning serves to edit and correct inefficiencies in query commands and to ensure your query wait time is a reasonable length. With performance optimization database software, the tuning process can be automated with API-powered suggestions informed by machine learning.
Tuning can involve simple adjustments to a single query command or it can involve a broader reconfiguration of your indexes. There isn’t just one service for a tuning software—it can trim inefficiencies or add steps to make short queries more robust. All SQL Server database optimization relies on an effective and efficient tuning strategy.
Database optimization software like SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is built to not only provide tuning suggestions, but also track the results of your tuning for optimal growth.
Since SolarWinds DPA is a comprehensive database optimization tool, its solutions aren’t limited to tuning readjustment. DPA can also analyze wait time to identify and correct any system issues affecting wait time, like capacity and dependency issues.
What does database optimization software do?
To allow for rapid problem solving, database optimization tools can offer alerts and suggestions based on sophisticated diagnostics.
In a consolidated command center, database optimization software can offer low-overhead 24/7 database monitoring to catch performance issues as soon as they arise. Wait time metrics can identify expensive queries, blocking sessions, deadlocks, and other communication issues slowing down your database. Perhaps most importantly, real-time alerts mean your database optimization tool can catch a bad query before it begins to wreak havoc on your database server. The use of API allows your software’s problem-solving skills to constantly evolve based on experience with your server.
Using a centralized dashboard, database optimization software like SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer can allow DBAs to view your metrics all in one place. Intuitive graphical displays mean your server metrics are easily accessible to any DBA. In a time-sensitive environment, an easy-to-use interface could save you valuable time and effort.
How does database optimization work in Database Performance Analyzer?
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer offers a unique array of features to help make it stand out as a robust and highly reliable database optimization tool.
The use of DPA REST API can allow you to control your 24/7 monitoring process with machine learning. A unique feature of your REST API is its agent-free monitoring, which is designed to collect metrics without needing to install agents on your nodes. This means each unit with a role in your database server operations can be detected and monitored.
DBAs are used to juggling many separate system metrics, from queries to CPU and memory metrics. SolarWinds DPA uses a color-coded interface to identify and intuitively display each metric in a centralized pane of glass to support your ability to gain insights at-a-glance. With DPA, you can also move among different metrics with the click of a button.
Like other SolarWinds IT management software, DPA is compatible with the web-based Orion® Platform. This means you can view DPA metrics alongside other SolarWinds product insights, like Server & Application Monitor (SAM), to help expand your understanding of application performance and dependencies in your environment. Learn more about the benefits of SAM and DPA in the Orion Platform here.
- What is database optimization?
- How to optimize SQL database performance
- Why is database optimization important?
- How to improve a database
- What does database optimization software do?
- How does database optimization work in Database Performance Analyzer?
What is database optimization?
Database optimization is based on a thorough understanding of your query functionality. In database performance optimization, application performance and database efficiency are understood through the lens of query wait times. To improve expensive queries, DBAs typically use a variety of manual methods to fix the details of your query or to rearrange the structure of the index itself.
For a large network with complex database operations, however, manual database optimization can be subject to inefficiency and human error. Automated database optimization techniques are built to add precision and speed to your query revisions. As any DBA knows, efficiently correcting expensive queries can drastically improve functionality for both your application server and your database server.
With automated database optimization, you can monitor performance issues, get alerts based on automated wait time analysis, and use machine learning to help automate troubleshooting. Automating your database optimization techniques ultimately allows you to proactively tune inefficient queries and identify trends that will let your database run smoothly.
Leverage in-depth analytics for intuitive database optimization
Database Performance Analyzer
- Monitor query wait times for SQL-specific database efficiency troubleshooting.
- Receive real-time alerts on unusual wait times and expensive queries for rapid response.
- Visualize your holistic database metrics, including dependencies and geographic configuration.
