Right now SteemSQL has some issues with performances because of the blockchain size and speed
Lag was not because of blockchain size or speed, but performance of the steemd node use to retrieve blocks.
Firstly, I get the creation date of the last block from SteemSQL
SELECT TOP 1 timestamp FROM Blocks WHERE timestamp >= CONVERT(date, GETUTCDATE()) ORDER BY timestamp DESC
You don't need to use WHERE clause.
The fastest way to retrieve the last block timestamp is:
SELECT TOP 1 timestamp FROM Blocks ORDER BY block_num DESC
Oh, thanks, updated the post and fixed the SQL.