Seeking free ODBC database optimization tool for non-experts
- by mawg
I'm a database n00b and am reading as many books as I can. I have been given responsibility for an ODBC tool where the databases were designed by a hardware engineer with some VB experience - which made him a s/w guru in the small firm at that time.
Things are running slowly and I suspect that the db could have been designed better. I hope to learn enough to use Explain/Describe, etc maybe add some indices, but, in the meantime, is there any free for commercial use tool which can examine an ODBC database and suggest improvements.
I'm just talking about db schema here, but maybe I should also be looking at optimizing Selects with Joins? Is there a tool for that?
ODBC compliant.