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

We haven't written about one performance bit:

Hardware.

Databases are intensely I/O driven. Moving to a faster hard drive should increase the speed of database queries. Splitting the database among many fast hard drives might improve it even more.