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SQL Server Speed Issue

Asked by wsturdev in MS SQL Server

Tags: SQL Server 2005, Speed, Queries

I am not a DBA by trade, but I am responsible for a SQL Server 2005 installation on a server that also runs a couple of web sites.  The number of people who interact with the server, either from Access-based front ends or via the web at any given time is extremely low, maybe 15 maximum.  Many times, late in the evening, I am the only one running anything.

The databases have hundreds of tables and views.  I run numerous queries against views that frequently are nested 5 and 6 levels deep.  (e.g. View 1 gets data from View 2 which gets data from view 3, etc.)

The amount of data is relatively small: thousands of records in key tables versus millions.  Recently, it was suggested that I run traces and then run Database Engine Tuning Advisor, which I have done.  It has come up with numerous suggestions for indices, which I have created.

Every night, I run a job to update statistics on every database.  Every weekend, I run a job to update (or recreate?) all indexes.

Still, some of my queries take upwards of 10 seconds to retrieve a few hundred records, maybe 2,000 characters of data per record.  I keep looking at how fast Google searches are, and they certainly have much more data than I do!

All of my apps run over the interenet, with a VPN connection, so I can understand a bit of slowdown there.  But my server is extremely fast and uncrowded.  I am the only one who uses it.  The number of users interacting with the server at any one time is extremely low.

When I RDC onto the server and run the queries there, the internet/VPN time is eliminated, but on a 10-second query, I only gain 2 seconds -- it still takes 8 seconds to run.

So, what other things can I do to speed up my queries?   I need to know that I have exhausted all normal DBA kinds of things before I go to the trouble of rewriting them or reconfiguring them into SPROCS.
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