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Pythian’s cloud DBA expertise helps NAV Canada move critical data to the cloud to lower costs and ensure high performance

Written by Pythian Marketing | Sep 5, 2023 6:36:01 PM

What we did

  • Provided consulting to demonstrate that the same level of performance could be achieved within a more cost-effective environment 
  • Created a proof-of-concept on an Azure database, while simulating the central SQL database; the team designed the tables on Azure with the proper data types, while translating more than 3000 lines of Oracle PL/SQL code to T-SQL code, primarily targeting improved performance 
    • With the existing database, geographical data is frequently collected from different sources to local Oracle databases and then transferred to a central Oracle database 
    • In the central database, a process (3000 lines of PL/SQL code) runs every 20 seconds, performing calculations on up to 3 minutes of collected data
    • This process calculates and summarizes the data (including geographical functions) and updates central tables accordingly 
 

Technologies used

 
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft Azure SQL Database