For any complicated (typically credit card) processing environment, authorization has a key role. This means that once the card is placed at a merchant outlet, it should get validated and authorized for the transaction to occur smoothly, which in turn is referred as STIP.

In other words, a situation arises when the card validation procedure faces a bottleneck and thus results in requests pouring in but not able to process in proper time. In such a scenario where the back end is handled by MS SQL Server, the respective team immediately needs to be engaged to avoid any larger impact as it has been observed closely.

So, a quick isolation procedure involves the understanding of the bottleneck promptly. As understandable, STIP forms the lifeline for a card processing system and most likely an organization like Scalability with adequate exposure to handling of large databases understand the critical dependency for it. Hence, the first check needs to be done at the database level where resources could be a constraint in terms of CPU, Memory, Blocking and any other related aspect. It has also been observed that a slow wait type can lead to a delay in a commit and thus a longer wait time for STIP authorization. At Scalability, the impact of a STIP has been understood over time and thus segregation is usually rather quick. Such is the importance and sensitivity of this that unless the action is quick and able enough, there could be a cascading impact. So, the moment the bottleneck is ascertained teams come together to address the issue to allow STIP to return to normalcy.

In fact, to conclude though the point remains that a trained DBA team understands the value of a quick isolation and forms the heart of a complex database support system. Thus, the importance of issue isolation is high and unquestionably the assurance from Scalability thus runs high enough to be of respect and consistent enough.