tips for optimizing a read-only sql database

Question

I have a mid-sized SQL Server 2008 database that has actuarial data in it. All of the use cases for it are read-only queries. Are there any special optimizations I should cons

Answer 1

1. Denormalize the data.
2. Apply the appropriate indexes.
3. Precalculate aggregations.
4. Implement the database atop a striped disk.
5. I've never seen this done but if you could somehow load the entire thing into memory (RAM disk???) that would be super fast, right?