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Unclogging the Database

Here's a situation that should resonate with experienced database users: Every morning a cadre of dispatchers log in to a company database and prepare to dispatch trucks and drivers on their way. The problem: With a large group of users making calls to similar tables or objects, the database bogs down at the worst possible time.

Eric Ruck, a long-time consultant and now CTO of Tetrabase, says his young company has a solution. Tetrabase SDT is an accelerator that improves the performance of installed databases. Although the product is compatible with all major flavors of databases, at this early point it works best with Microsoft's SQL server, says Ruck.

Simply put, Tetrabase adds a layer of management intelligence. Once administrators spot a problem (like the database bogging down every morning) they can use Tetrabase to find a solution. To make a complicated example simple, the trucking company's database needed to identify the data dispatchers were calling up each morning (usually orders tagged for that day) and load it before the dispatchers punched in.