How to increase the performance of a Database?

Question

I have designed databases several times in my company. To increase the performance of the database, I look for Normalisation and Indexing only.

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Answer 1

If a query is extremely mission-critical, you may want to consider de-normalizing, to reduce the number of table-lookups per query. Aside from that, if you need more performance beyond what indexing and de-normalizing can perform, you might want to look program-side: caching, optimizing queries/stored-procedures, etc.