Performance

Performance is about ensuring that your system can meet your current and future business needs. We know that an application originally written to service 10k concurrent users is not necessarily able to accommodate 100k concurrent users. By applying our knowledge of database architectures, we have taken these applications from 10k to over 100k and done so without the need for additional hardware capacity. We have a demonstrated history of scaling architecture to work with our clients’ business needs.

We have established precise methodologies to solve performance bottlenecks in both highly-concurrent OLTP to very large and data intensive OLAP warehouses.

With our depth of experience and level of expertise, we know what combination of database features or design techniques to apply to make your system scale.

Benefits: Performance

  • Application response time improvements, as opposed to global database improvements
  • Extended life of existing infrastructure
  • Reduced downtime
  • Better predictability
  • Cost savings

Services Provided under Performance

  • Performance tuning
  • Performance auditing
  • Troubleshooting
  • Forecasting

Database Features

We have extensive experience in OracleOracle Apps, MySQL and SQL Server.

When it comes to stability and performance management, we know how to get the most from the features such as:

  • Oracle: AWR, Perfstat, LogMiner, Oracle wait interface, Active Session History (ASH), query plans, query tuning, Grid Control's performance and tuning packs, application tuning, Resource Manager.
  • Oracle Apps: Troubleshooting of technical Apps performance issues, Load Balancer for mid-tier nodes, Apps locking issues, Apache parameter tuning, defragmentation of Application tablespaces, RAC implementation for Apps configuration, addition of mid-tier nodes, database parameter tuning in light of Oracle Applications.
  • MySQL: Partitioning, MySQL upgrades, Google patches, Percona binaries, automated replication data integrity using mk-table-checksum, replication architectures for maximizing stability.
  • SQL Server: Activity Monitor, SQL Profiler, SQL Trace, Windows Performance Monitor, execution plans, IO statistics, index analysis, Data Management Views (DMVs), Policy-Based Management, Resource Governor, active sessions monitor, blocking sessions’ analysis, Microsoft Synchronization Framework.

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