2005 Perf Much Worse Than 2000... Suggestions Please..

I have this SP that takes several varchar columns and concatinates them all together then inserts them into a text field. I do this with a cursor which was the quickest way to get it done when it was setup...

However when I moved the process to a 2005 server (on the same physical server) the process drastically slowed down. On 2000 the process took about 7 min to handle all 350k+ rows with the processors hanging around 20-40%... On 2005 it took over 30 min (not sure how long it would take cause I killed the process) and the processors stay above 98%...

I have rewritten the process to use a while loop instead of the cursor (I wanted to do this anyways) and it had no effect. At this rate (about 1 row a second) it will take forever and this process runs everyday.

Any ideas??

Here is the procedure...

declare @srch_field varchar(8000)

declare @row int, @productid varchar(25)

DECLARE @title varchar(150), @actors_keyname varchar(1200), @directors_name varchar(400)

Declare @genres varchar(700), @theme varchar(1500), @type varchar(1500), @studio_desc varchar(100)

DECLARE @media_format varchar(50), @artist_name varchar(100), @dev_name varchar(100)

DECLARE @flags varchar(256), @starring varchar(256), @esrb varchar(100), @esrb_desc varchar(500)

DECLARE @ptrval varbinary(16), @text varchar(max)

declare @productlist table(product_id varchar(25), IDNUM int identity)

insert into @productlist (product_id)

select product_id

from music_load..globalsearch

select @row = @@rowcount

while @row > 0

begin

select @productid = product_id

from @productlist

where idnum = @row

SELECT @title = rtrim(title) ,

@actors_keyname = actors_keyname ,

@directors_name = directors_name,

@genres = genres ,

@theme = theme ,

@type = type ,

@studio_desc = studio_desc,

@media_format = media_format ,

@artist_name = artist_name,

@dev_name = dev_name,

@flags = flags ,

@starring =starring ,

@esrb = esrb ,

@esrb_desc = esrb_desc

FROM globalsearch

where product_id = @productid

Set @srch_field = isnull(@title,'')

if @actors_keyname is not null and @actors_keyname <> 'unknown'

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + rtrim(@actors_keyname)

if @directors_name is not null and @directors_name <> 'unknown'

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + rtrim(@directors_name)

if @genres is not null

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + (ltrim(rtrim(replace(@genres, 0,''))))

if @theme is not null

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + (ltrim(rtrim(replace(@theme, 0,''))))

if @type is not null

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + (ltrim(rtrim(replace(@type, 0,''))))

if @studio_desc is not null

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + rtrim(@studio_desc)

if @media_format is not null

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + rtrim(@media_format)

if @artist_name is not null

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + rtrim(@artist_name)

if @dev_name is not null

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + rtrim(@dev_name)

if @flags is not null

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + rtrim(@flags)

if @starring is not null

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + rtrim(@starring)

if @esrb is not null

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + rtrim(@esrb)

if @esrb_desc is not null

Set @srch_field = @srch_field + ' ~ ' + rtrim(@esrb_desc)

update globalsearch

set srch_field = @srch_field

where product_id = @productid

SELECT @ptrval = TEXTPTR(srch_field),

@text = credits

FROM globalsearch

where product_id = @productid

UPDATETEXT globalsearch.srch_field @ptrval NULL NULL @text

SELECT @ptrval = TEXTPTR(srch_field),

@text = track

FROM globalsearch

where product_id = @productid

UPDATETEXT globalsearch.srch_field @ptrval NULL NULL @text

set @row = @row - 1

end