I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...
I've got a products table that uses a next product id to allow versioning of products, e.g.:<BR><BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">ID Model List NextID ...
While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.