A performance change should improve the measured workload without sacrificing correctness or wasting capacity. Which measurements and bottlenecks should be considered first?

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Inspect query plans, slow-query evidence and buffer-pool behavior using representative traffic. Verify index selectivity and avoid fetching unnecessary rows. A larger buffer pool can help cache the working set, but it will not repair an inefficient query or an unbounded result set.

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