Question : Speeding up a SQL Server 2008  Database?

I was just wondering is there anyway I can speed up a database. The performance of my database has crumbled where a standard select query use to take 1 second it's now taking over 2 minutes.

Is there anything  can do that will flush out the caches or rebuild indexes?

Thanks

Answer : Speeding up a SQL Server 2008  Database?

You can build new indexes, recreate the indexes that are there, defrag the indexes, give the server more RAM if the database size has grown a lot. If you have the database in full recovery mode and you're not backing the transaction logs or truncating them they will most likely be huge and sorting that out will improve performance no end.

Lee