Introduction
The process of starting and growing a business to become highly competitive in your target industry can be overwhelming if you are not well-equipped with business knowledge and how businesses operate from start-up to a level where they can compete with big brands.
As a businessman or woman, there are a number of things that you should do to stay on top of your game; otherwise, you will just be revolving around a cycle and you will not achieve a tangible thing for your business.
In essence, what we mean is that there are some key factors you need to have in mind as you start and grow your startup to become a business to reckon with in your industry.
While there are so many things to keep in mind while piloting the effects of your business, one of the major components that guarantee the success of a business is integrating the concept of MS SQL server.
In the last two years that the pandemic has lasted, we have heard from different business people how they struggle repeatedly dealing with some problems that MS SQL Server presents to them.
If you are ready to put an end to all of these predicaments then this article is curated with you in mind. Also, read about growing a business.
We will use three different use cases or scenarios to demonstrate the different challenges that businesses face with MS SQL Server and how to confront this predicament.
So, let’s learn the different problems associated with MS SQL Server and also recommend some solutions to nip the problems in the bud.
The 5 Most Frequent Performance Problems At A Glance:
1. Application Keeps Getting Slower
One of the biggest challenges that businesses usually encounter using MS SQL servers is that the application is usually slow at some point.
You will agree with us that once an application is slow there is little or nothing a business can achieve when providing value to our customers.
A slow application can be a headache to business owners, in that, it will not only tell on the business’s bottom line, it will also discourage customers that are patronizing the business.
If you face this kind of problem with your MS SQL Server, one of the things that you should immediately do is to check the non-clustered and clustered indexes or their fragmentation.
After clustering the indexes, another thing to do is to review to determine whether or not maintenance plans for the upkeep of your system exist.
And if there is a maintenance plan for your system, the question to ask is how often are these maintenance plans implemented.
Once you are able to determine whether or not there’s a maintenance plan and whether or not the maintenance plan is usually implementable, you will be able to resolve this challenge with your MS SQL server.
For index reorganization and index rebuild, the SQL Server has a maintenance plan that is inbuilt which unfortunately most business people find difficult to configure.
Therefore, your best bet is to use and adapt the solution provided by experts in SQL Server.
Another great solution is to modify the standard fill factor for any of the indexes that your system supports.
If this is an individual case modifying the standard fill Factor will resolve the challenge once and for all.
2. Generating My Reports (SSRS) Takes Forever
This is another MS SQL server challenge that most businesses running a small to medium size brand usually face.
If you install the MS SQL server and it takes forever to generate reports for your business, your best bet is to quickly set machinery in motion to resolve this problem; otherwise, your employees or team may find it difficult to generate important reports that may enable your management to make an immediate business decision.
We have seen some cases where those that are not competent are recruited to handle the installation of the MS SQL server because their fee was rather on the low side.
If this is the practice that you rely on, then you will need to have a rethink when inviting MS SQL server support to help you install your system.
If you experience this challenge number 2, the solution that you should adopt to resolve this problem is to increase the RAM that the MS SQL Server comes with.
For instance, if the server comes with a ram of 5 GB you can resolve this challenge by upgrading the RAM to about 7 GB.
This will immediately resolve this problem in a short time. As a matter of fact, if you can upgrade the memory to around 10 or 12 GB, then you are sure of fixing the problem once and for all.
When configuring the RAM that your server will use, it is important to remember that the SQL server will likely reserve the RAM even when it is actively in use.
Doing this will help you prevent repeat data loading from the storage the moment you access it.
3. Data Generation In The Application Takes A Week
Another problem that businesses may likely encounter using the MS SQL server is that data generated in the application may take longer than a week.
The cause of this problem is because the relevant application usually takes more than 10 GB of data and also generates an additional 20 GB in the process.
The solution to this problem is to increase your auto-growth to around 2 GB.
If you are able to do this, the problems that you usually encounter in the process will be checked in the Microsoft documentation.
Conclusion
Using the MS SQL server can be the game-changer that you will need in your business to scale and offer targeted value to your client across the world.
Thankfully, in this article, we have been able to highlight the top 3 challenges or problems that businesses face while using the MS SQL server.
If you are able to implement these solutions that we have highlighted in this article, then you are sure of being one step away from growing a Fortune 500 business.
The MS SQL server is capable of transforming your business story to become a force to reckon with in your target industry.
