Databases are magic from my perspective. They take in queries, find all the information you tasked it to find, and POOF. In the blink of an eye, there it is, all packaged up nice and neat. Or it blows up in your face, but that never happens, right? Let’s take a look at some steps we can take when things are not returned in the blink of and eye. What can we do to improve our database performance.