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Data and Trading Technology Firm Gains 20 Percent Performance With SQL Server 2005
Overview Townsend Analytics, Ltd. (TAL) has brought innovation and efficiencies to electronic trading with its RealTick suite of applications for analyzing, tracking, and trading stocks, futures, options, foreign exchange, and fixed income instruments for North American and European markets. TAL requires ultimate speed and flexibility of its infrastructure to consistently exceed the needs of its diverse client base. To enhance performance, TAL upgraded its databases to Microsoft SQL Server 2005. TAL saw an immediate 20 percent increase in performance compared to SQL Server 2000, and faster query performance from using the new Table Partitioning feature. The 1 terabyte, single-instance SQL Server 2005 database supports 90 million equity quotes per day, with peak volumes reaching well over 60,000 quotes, or "Ticks," per second.
| Publisher | Microsoft | File Format | WORD |
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| Date Published | February 2007 | ||
| Format | Case Studies | ||
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