12 July 2017 Stanislav Andrenko
Our customer needed to reduce the licensing costs of their Oracle database. We came up with a comprehensive solution by migrating their database to SQL Server platform. We also remed...
Understanding your performance needs
DB Best has worked with hundreds of customers over the years, helping them get the most out of their database technologies. Regardless of your database platform, the ability to meet your performance requirements all boils down to CPU utilization, memory pressure, disk latency, and network latency. By having a good baseline on your database server performance, it helps highlight when things go wrong. There are many factors which can impact performance.
For example:
- A loose fiber channel connector can certainly impact the performance of even the fastest all-flash memory disk array.
- A change in data distribution can impact the query execution plan resulting in queries suddenly running much slower than expected.
- Adding reporting queries directly against your transaction processing system can starve CPU cycles for your critical transactions.
- Running with non-commercial SSD storage could result in lower IOPS throughput over time.
Running workloads on public clouds like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform can often solve many of the hardware related performance issues. However, even they experience interruptions over time. New database self-tuning features such as SQL Server 2017 Automatic Query Tuning or Oracle Database 18c with Autonomous Database Performance claim to solve all of your problems. Yet, when it comes down to it, you are likely running older versions of your database engine.
This is where DB Best comes in: As a world leader in database migrations, we understand the ins and outs of every major platform. As part of our migration projects, we routinely benchmark source database performance to ensure our customers are achieving all the benefits of moving to a modern database platform. In some cases, we’ve even shown how our customers can simply fix lingering performance issues on their original database platform instead of committing to a migration project.
These are just some of the database platforms that we are able to optimize and upgrade.
Microsoft SQL Server
Your SQL Server databases store and retrieve the lifeblood of your business – data. DB Best provides expert consulting services to organizations of all sizes for mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server installations.
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is an intelligent, fully-managed relational cloud database service built for developers. See how DB Best can help you migrate workloads to Azure SQL Database and improve the way you are using it today.
Azure Database Service
Interested in managed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases on Microsoft Azure? Take advantage of high availability and disaster recovery features with Microsoft Azure's new platform as a service.
Microsoft Data Warehouse Solutions
See how DB Best can help you get the most out of the Microsoft Data Warehouse platform technologies like SQL Server, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake, and more.
Amazon Data Warehouse Solutions
Working closely with the Amazon Redshift team, DB Best is ready to help customers migrate aging on-premises data warehouse workloads to Redshift. We can also optimize your Redshift data warehouse and integrate it with other Amazon Web Services.
AWS RDS Platform
With the AWS RDS platform and infrastructure, you have many options for running your favorite database on EC2, RDS, and Aurora. Learn how we can optimize your database solutions on AWS.
Google Cloud Data Platform
See how DB Best can support your cloud-based OLTP needs by leveraging the Google Cloud Data Platform, taking advantage of SQL Server on Compute Engine as well as PostgreSQL and MySQL on Googles managed Cloud SQL service.
MySQL
DB Best has developed hundreds of applications for customers using the MySQL platform. Our team can help you with new solutions, operational support or moving your applications to the cloud.
PostgreSQL
DB Best has developed hundreds of applications for customers using the PostgreSQL platform. Our team can help you with your new solutions or move your existing applications to the cloud.
IBM DB2 Database
Migrate, optimize and manage your IBM DB2 databases and applications anywhere with DB Best
SAP ASE (formally Sybase)
If you are using older versions of Sybase ASE, we can help you address your performance, high availability, and security needs. We can also help you address issues with your PowerBuilder solutions.
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Access is a great tool for small departmental applications. However, at some point, you will need to consider using SQL Server on-premises or on Azure to provide greater security and high availability.
Oracle Database
If you are using out-of-support Oracle databases, you may be facing huge licensing cost from Oracle. DB Best can help you optimize your Oracle licenses as part of a database upgrade or migrate the solution to other database platforms.
Oracle Data Warehouse
Manage and migrate your Oracle Data Warehouse data and applications anywhere
MongoDB
Take advantage of a flexible and scalable document database which has the querying and indexing capabilities that you need. See how DB Best can help you deploy a MongoDB cluster in a short period of time.
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Performance services for cloud-based solutions
Our experience deploying database applications over the years inside of our customer’s data centers translates nicely to public and private cloud platforms. In the end, it’s all about computing, network, and storage resources that just happen to be in someone else’s data center.
By leveraging our latest experiences deploying solutions on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, we can diagnose and troubleshoot any performance issue that comes up.
We use a combination of traditional on-premises tools, cloud providers tools, and our own in-house tools to solve the nastiest of issues to help you maintain your service level agreements for your organization.
Check out our capabilities for the top three cloud providers.
Keeping your systems at peak performance around the clock
Let us keep your systems running and focus your IT organization on solving new business problems.
Our Operational Data Management service provides you with the people, processes, and products to maintain your existing data infrastructure as well as produce a proactive roadmap towards modernizing every aspect of your data environment. Our service can run 24x7x365.
The on-boarding processes help identify business needs and establish key performance metrics to ensure smooth operation and efficiency as well as lower costs. Our initial assessment and inventory will define a performance baseline and identify immediate areas for improvement, with monitoring tool setup, ensuring automated incident management, guaranteed SLAs, and establishing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documentation.
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Check out our blog posts on how we have helped our customers with our performance tuning services.
Blog posts
Architecting highly available and scalable system when migrating to SQL Server on AWS
Global Retailer Tunes up OLAP Performance Ten-fold
15 December 2016 Bill Ramos
When a company grows, it's no surprise that their database stored data grows as well. This is the case for all companies, and our customer, a global retailer in the beauty industry, wa...
Enhancing SQL Server database performance by 3x acceleration of queries execution
6 July 2017 Stanislav Andrenko
A leading provider of business management solutions currently hosts many of their workloads using SQL Server databases on Azure. They faced a number of SQL Server database performanc...
Helping our customer to convert Oracle schemas with hierarchical queries to SQL Server
20 June 2017 Andrey Ivanov
One of the world’s largest information technology companies decided to migrate their Oracle database to SQL Server. They leveraged SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for Oracle to...
Increasing database performance by migrating from Ingres to SQL Server
18 July 2017 admin
One of our customers needed to migrate their Ingres Database system to Microsoft SQL Server wanting to improve the performance of their system. We came up with a migration solution ...
Is In-Memory OLTP a Useless Feature?
22 June 2017 Kalen Delaney
What makes a feature useless? I might agree that if absolutely NO ONE uses it, or has ever used it, then it is useless, by obvious definition. But if some people use it, but not ever...
Optimizing your Redshift Storage with AWS Schema Conversion Tool
2 March 2017 Bill Ramos
Amazon introduced the new feature called Redshift Optimization for the Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) November 17, 2016 release. You can now use AWS SCT to optimize your Amazon Redshift ...
Our customer reduced costs by over 20% by optimizing Azure elastic pools
29 March 2017 Stanislav Andrenko
A leading provider of payroll and HR services in the United States faced the difficulties with configuring the Azure elastic pools for the needs of their SaaS Azure app. The Azure tool...
Using Amazon Redshift performance tuning tips to reduce query times by 800%
14 December 2017 Bill Ramos
Often database administrators experience decreases in query performance with Amazon Redshift as the size of data increases. The problem becomes even more significant when we start talk...
Using PostgreSQL in cloud alongside with Oracle to enhance the database system performance
15 June 2017 Andrey Ivanov
One of the leading independent software vendors in educational domain needed to expand their original Oracle database system. They wanted to add a new PostgreSQL database running on AW...
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