Finish before the deadline.
Find why reports, imports, or overnight jobs run late. Measure completion time and the effect on the people waiting for the result.
SQL Server · .NET · Azure
Make critical work finish when your business needs it.
Are customers waiting, reports arriving late, or cloud costs rising? Start with what the business needs to achieve. Mottobits measures the affected workflow, finds the cause, and helps your team choose an improvement worth making.
START WITH THE GOAL
A report ready for the morning meeting. An order that completes during peak hours. More work from the capacity you already pay for. Agree your target, then measure what stands in its way.
Choose the business problem
What does slow software
stop you from doing?
These are possible engagement goals. We agree a realistic target after looking at your system; the investigation does not promise a speed gain before measurement.
Help customers complete the task.
Investigate slow searches, orders, and stalled requests across the application and SQL Server. Agree a target for response time and failed requests.
Keep work moving as demand grows.
Identify why acceptable speed falls apart when more people use the system. Test the same workload at the agreed level of demand.
Understand the cost before adding capacity.
Compare resource use with useful work completed. Assess code, database, and configuration changes alongside additional capacity.
A useful first conversation
Your goal.
Your problem.
Your current system.
A short description is enough to start. If you have these details, they help us propose a focused investigation.
Share your performance problem- Which report, customer task, or process is affected, and who is waiting?
- How long does it take now, and what result do you need?
- When does it happen, how often, and what does the delay cost your team?
- Which SQL Server, .NET, and hosting versions do you use?
- What changed recently, and what have you already tried?
- What measurements and safe access can your team provide?
From problem to a practical decision
Measure the work.
Find the cause.
Plan the improvement.
We use the same business workflow to judge the result, with data and demand your team agrees are representative.
Define success together.
Choose one workflow, its current behavior, the target, and the available access. Agree scope, hours, and responsibilities before paid work begins.
Explain where the time goes.
Follow the work through SQL Server, .NET, and hosting. Separate causes supported by measurements from questions that still need checking.
Choose a change worth funding.
Receive ranked options, expected effort, remaining uncertainty, and a way to test each option. Your team gets a walkthrough and a usable next step.
Compare before and after.
Implementation is agreed separately. For an approved change, repeat the workload and check speed, failures, and resource use against the starting measurements.
What do you investigate in SQL Server and .NET?
Depending on the symptoms and version, we inspect slow queries and execution plans, Query Store history, indexes and statistics, blocking and deadlocks, repeated database calls, memory use, stalled application threads, and Azure resource pressure. The measurements determine which checks matter.
For technical background, see Microsoft’s documentation on Query Store and SQL Server blocking.
Performance consulting
A focused investigation.
A decision your team can use.
$250 / hour minimum
Agree the problem, access, scope, rate, and estimated hours before work begins. Performance consulting is priced separately from the dedicated engineering team.
Discuss scope and hoursWhat you receive
- The agreed business goal and starting measurements
- Findings that explain the affected workflow, with supporting measurements
- Ranked improvements, estimated effort, and remaining questions
- A plan for checking whether an approved change meets the target
- A walkthrough and handover for your engineers
Implementation is scoped separately. Any improvement is measured against the agreed workload and starting point.
Talk to Mottobits
What should run better for your business?
Tell us what is slow, who it affects, and what you want to achieve. Add your SQL Server, .NET, and hosting details if you have them.