I want to know how to analyze query execution plan for complex queries and what information is useful from that for improving the performance. I have gone through details in some sites like www.like sql-performance.com (http://www.sql-server-performance.com/query_execution_plan_analysis.asp), where it was more generic. I want more info regarding this.
Can any one tell about the resources for this or do you have any white papers or documents, which you can share with me.
The benefit of the actual execution plan is that you can see the actual number of rows passing through each step - compared to the estimated number of rows.But what about the "cost percentages" ?I believe I've read somewhere that these percentages is still just an estimate and is not based on the real execution.Does anyone know this and preferable have a link to something that documents it?Thanks
I'm new to SQL server but familiar enough with databases to know this doesn't seem right. Here's the situation: I have a table with real estate property information. There are about 650,000 rows in it. I have a nonclustered non-unique index on the city where the property is located. There are about 40 unique values in this index.
I do a simple query like: SELECT city,address from propinfo where city= 'CARLSBAD'. The query will return about 4,000 rows. The problem is that the execution plan that it chooses is to do a full table scan. I.E. Even though there is an index on City, it chooses to look through 650,000 rows rather than do an index seek. Something sounds inefficient here. BTW, this happens in both SQL 7 and SQL 2000. Can anyone explain why this happens? I've got to think that SQL Server is more efficient here.
Hello, I have been looking at the execution plan for a procedure call and the select, compute scalar, stream aggregates, constant scan, nested loops, asserts are all at 0% cost, the PK costs are 2% apart from a rogue 7% and a few 20%, tables scans are all at 23%. The query cost realtive to the batch is 100%. What does this all mean? I have put non-clustered indexes on all the table attributes that are involved in the select statements but this has made no difference, i am guessing this is because my tables are not heavily populated and i may have seen a difference if i had thousands of entries in the tables the select statements acted on, is this assumption correct? Does anyone else bother using the execution plan to tweak there DB or is it a negligible tool?
In sql server 2005 management studio where do I find the option to run the sql query in the query analyser and also show the execution plan? At present I see the option under Query menu which is "Display estimated Execution plan" which only shows the plan but does not execute the query.
Does anyone know of a good way to copy the execution plan when using "Include Actual Execution Plan"? I often need to copy this and mail it.
I know I can use PrintScreen button, but I need a more efficient way to do this. If I just could rightclick the execution plan and select "Copy" and get complete plan it would be great.
Which of the following does NOT cause the execution plan of a query to berecompiled ?- new column is added to a table accessed by a query OR- index used by a query has been dropped from the database OR- query perfoms a join to return data from multiple tables OR- significant amount of data in a table has been mofified
Hi,I have a table-valued user defined function (UDF) my_fnc.The execution of statement "select * from my_fnc" takes much longertime than runnig the code inside my_fnc (with necessary changes).What can be the reason?How can I see an execution plan used for UDF?Thanks a lotMartin
Hi,I want to access the real execution plan via my webapplication after I have executed an SQL statement. I know how to get the estimated execution plan:1 cmd.CommandText = "SET SHOWPLAN_XML ON";2 cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();3 4 cmd.CommandText = myStatement;5 SqlDataReader dataReader = cmd.ExecuteReader();6 7 String plan = String.Empty;8 9 while (dataReader.Read()) {10 plan += dataReader.GetSqlString(0).ToString();11 }12 13 cmd.CommandText = "SET SHOWPLAN_XML OFF";14 cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();I want do compare the estimated costs with the real costs of the same statement. If I change code line 1 an 13 to "SET STATISTICS XML [ON|OFF]" the string "plan" will contain the result of the submitted SELECT statement, but I just need to get the plan and not the result itself. Thanks in Advance,Dominik
I wanted to know whether we have an execution plan enabled in SQL 6.5 as we have it in SQL 7.0 and SQL 2000 . I.e when we execute a query and if we enable ' show execution plan 'then it creates a map and shows the vital statistics . If that is available on SQL 6.5 then i am missing that tool .
How can i have it installed on my SQL 6.5 server ??
I am experiencing performance problems with one of my stored procedures. When the stored procedure is first compiled an executed, it behaves as expected (it usually takes 1 or 2 seconds to complete). But its performace it is degradated, so in 1 day, it usually takes 120 seconds to complete !!!. Once the stored procedure is compiled, its performance it is then the expected.
It is a complex stored procedure with two integer parameters with only one select, but composed by multiple views and sub-queries. We have been trying to break the query into small pieces using temporary tables but without success. The SQL Profiler shows an unusual number of reads when it goes wrong (more than a million reads).
I think the problem is in the execution plan. I know than compiling the stored procedure, the problem is fixed, but I do not know exactly when and why it starts to happen.
The stored procedure is running under the following configuration:
- Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition (64-bit). - Version: 9.00.1399.06 - RAM 16 MB - 8 CPUs
The cost of query with usage of functions is as same as that of withoutfunctionsIn the below code, the query cost of insert is 0.02% and two selectstatements costs same 0.04%Declare @t table(mydate datetime)Declare @i intset @i=1while @i<=5000Begininsert into @t values(getdate())set @i=@i+1EndSelect mydate from @tSelect convert(varchar,mydate,112) from @tBut I thought usage of convert function will take more query costWhat do you think of this?Madhivanan
We've got as slightly unusual scenario happening whereby a statement ispassed to SQL which consists of two parts.BEGIN TRANSACTIONDELETE * FROM WhateverBULK INSERT INTO Whatever...(etc)COMMIT TRANSACTIONThe first is a deletion of the data and the second is the bulk insertof replacement data into that table. The error that we see is aviolation of the primary key (composite).The violation only happens if we run both processes together. If we runone, then the other, it works fine. If we set a line by line insert, itworks fine.My suspicion is that the execution plan that is being run is mostlikely working the two parts in parallel and that the records stillexist at the point that the insert is happening. Truncate is not anoption. The bulk insert was added for performance reasons. There is anoption of trying the bulk insert, and if that fails, do the line byline insert, but it's far from ideal.I think we can probably wrap this into two individual transactionswithin the one statement as follows :BEGIN TRANSACTIONDELETE * FROM WhateverCOMMIT TRANSACTIONBEGIN TRANSACTIONBULK INSERT INTO Whatever...(etc)COMMIT TRANSACTIONWill this give sufficient hint to SQL about the order it processes itso that it completes as we intend and not as it sees being the mostefficient method ?Or, is there a better approach to this ?I've seen that some hints can be passed to SQL for optimizing, but myunderstanding was that it was always better to trust the optimiser andre-work the query as needed.With the server having two processors, is it feasible that one is doingone part and the other processor the other part in parallel ? Willtelling it to use a single processor be worthwhile looking at ? MAXDOP1 ?Finally, I'd imagine that the insert is quicker to process than thedeletion. Is this correct ?ThanksRyan
Using SQL Server 2000 SP4.There is a relatively complex stored procedure that usually completes inless than 20 seconds. Occasionally it times out after 180 seconds. The SPis called via ADO 2.8, using adCmdStoredProc command type. If I useProfiler to capture the EXEC that ADO sends to run the procedure, and runthat from QA, the procedure completes in less than 20 seconds as it should.The procedure is created WITH RECOMPILE. One additional twist is thatsp_setapprole is called from the client before running the procedure inquestion. This may be irrelevant, because even if I include the samesp_setapprole call when running the procedure from QA, it still executesquickly, and even if I comment out the call to sp_setapprole in the clientcode, the proc still times out when run from the client.The only thing that fixes it, at least for a day or two, is DBCCFREEPROCCACHE. So it appears that a bad plan is somehow stuck in memory andis only used when the procedure is called from the client app, and is notflushed even though the procedure was created WITH RECOMPILE.Other than scheduling the DBCC call to run every night, is there anythingelse I could try to get this resolved? Thanks.--(remove a 9 to reply by email)
I was hoping someone could shed some light on wierd situation i'm experiencing. I have the following query:
select count(*) LeadCount from auto_leads al where received > dbo.GetDay(GetDate())
dbo.GetDay simply returns a smalldatetime value of today's date.
Now I recently got thrown into a data mess and for some reason this query takes 8 seconds to run. Now the first thing I did was update the stats on the Received column of this auto_leads table. I re-run the query and I'm still getting 8 seconds. I look at the execution plan I can make figure out why this is happening.
I then change the above query so the filter received > dbo.GetDay(GetDate()) is now just received > '5/31/2006' and the query comes back immediately. This doesn't make sense to me because the GetDay function is really simple and comes back immediately. I then try the following query to confirm it isn't a problem with the GetDay function:
declare @Today DateTime
set @Today = dbo.getday(GetDate())
select count(*) leads from auto_leads al join type_lead_status tls on (tls.type_lead_status_id = al.type_lead_status_id) where received > @Today
Sure enough, the query came back immediately. Next thing to go through my mind is that the query execution plan has been cached by SQL Server using the execution plan from before I updated the stats on the received column. So I executed sp_recompile 'auto_leads' and tryed the original query again. Still taking 8-10 seconds to come back.
So my question, is why when I remove the GetDay function call in my query filter is the query slow, as opposed to me just passing a variable into the query? Thanks!
I'm new to sql server 2005 and was reviewing the execution plan on one of my queries.
I have a query that selects about 62,000 rows from a table of about 20 million
I see there is a index seek indicated but further down the execution plan I see that a large percent is being assigned to a RID LOOKUP on the same table.
Should I be concerned with this and if so, what would you recommend I do to correct it?
We migrated our database from SQL Server 2000 to Yukon last week. Now, when we run our application it has slowed down. We analyzed some stored procedure and they seems to have degarded. The execution plan has changed. Now, this looks like there's lot of work if we have to tune each query w.r.t the new execution plan. Our application has around 4000 stored procs. Is anyone aware of some generic pattern or solution such that these exection plans problem can resolved? Also, does the new execution plan ensure that the once we tune stored procs will perform better than SQL Server 2000.
Need help on this, otherwise it seems we might have to move back to 2000.
I€™m having a test regarding to the image data type. The test program is written with sql native api and just update the image data type column, but I looked the SQL Compilations/sec and Batch Requests/sec counters in SQLServer:QL Statistics using Perfmon, both values are almost the same. It seemed whenever the stored procedure is called, SQLServer compiles it and makes execution plan again. But when I had a test without image data type, SQL Compilation/sec was 0. SQL version is Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.3054.00 (Intel X86) (Build 2600: Service Pack 2).
Is SQL server working the way expected or am I missing something?
I want to find out more information about the execution plan. I saw Parallelism (Gather Streams) in the excution plan. In what situation we can see this icon?If in case if we need to avoid how can we avoid this?
We have got a query for fine tuning and it is using lot of CTE ,how can i check the execution plan of that?
CREATE VIEW Mercy AS with ADR as ( SELECT urpx.RoleID , urx.UserID FROM [DBA].dbo.URPX WITH ( NOLOCK ) INNER JOIN [DBA].dbo.URX WITH ( NOLOCK ) ON urpx.RoleID = urx.RoleID WHERE PermissionID = '1' ), SDR as (
-- Collect the roles that a configured with Sales Team Create permission
-- This will include Sales Director , Suite Admin,
SELECT urpx.RoleID FROM [DBA].dbo.URPX WITH ( NOLOCK ) INNER JOIN [DBA].dbo.URX WITH ( NOLOCK ) ON urpx.RoleID = urx.RoleID LEFT OUTER JOIN ADR ON ADR.UserID = urx.UserID WHERE ADR.RoleID IS NULL AND PermissionID='2' )
I have an execution plan that is huge, the pdf it generates if I print it is over 1000 pages. Is there a way to change the graphical plan into a table, so I can sort the %, and find the items that are taking the longest?
if t-sql query is perfectly run in development and when I execute in production at that time I want to use execution plan which is in development . so how I can do using cache? I know about hint we can use hint USE_PLANE. but I want to do with cache .
This is probably a very stupid question. I have been out of the SQL Server arena for awhile and am now getting re acclimated. It was my understanding that using execution plan in query analyzer does not really execute the query against the query's database tables. Is this right? Tom.
When I generate an estimated execution plan from Management Studio, one of the things I often see in the execution plan generated is an 'Index Scan'. When I put my mouse over the 'Index Scan' graphic, I will see a window display with something called 'Output List' at the bottom of the window. Do I understand correctly that SQL Server will scan my index looking for values in each of the fields included in this output list?
Hi, We have an application which fetches data from a table which has approximately 1 million records.
1. Nearly 25 users will be using this application concurrently. 2. frequent updations will be done to the records in the geographyrolecurriculum table. 3. This table has 1 clustered index and 4 nonclustered index bounded to it.
Problem Statement: 1. Application runs smoothly for 15 - 20 days and after that all the screens throws timeout errors. When i clear the sys.syscacheobjects its working fine again and screens get loaded quickly. Please tell me how clearing the syscacheobjects makes the execution fast? and is this the correct way to solve the timeout issue or is there any other alternative?
2. Will the stored procs timeout if the tempdb is full ?
Can anyone explain me simple language and easy to understand query execution plan. I am a fresher assigned to read and evaluate execution plan. i do not understand where is the problem. what percentage is considered as good sql and what percentage is considered as bad sql.
how do i understand whether there is a problem in sql or joins or index or anything else. Please explain me step by step what should be considered and what recomenendation should i give for each problem.
I use recompile option in SQL query to dynamic pass variable to optimizer.
I verify explain plan with SET STATISTICS PROFILE ON
and optimizer chose nested lookup ,ok. But if use Display Estimated Execution Plan (CTR+L) I€™ve get merge join. It€™s very confusing, some suggestion €¦?
Use AdventureWorks
go
declare @StartOrderDate datetime
set @StartOrderDate = '20040731'
SELECT * FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader h, Sales.SalesOrderDetail d
I've create a bunch of views to expose a logical model of the underlying database of an application server.
To enforce the security control, I've also created a CLR UDF to call the application server's API for security check and audit log.
For example, we have a table, tblSecret, and the view, vwSecret, is,
SELECT
Id, ParentId, Description, SecretData FROM tblSecret WHERE udfExpensiveApiCall(Id) = 1
The udfExpensiveApiCall will return 1 if the current user is allowed to access the SecretData else 0. The CLR UDF call is very expensive in terms of execution time and resources required.
Currently, there are millions rows in the tblSecret.
My objective is to tune the view such that when the view is JOINed, the udfExpensiveApiCall will be called the least number of time.
SELECT
ParentId, SecertData FROM vwParent LEFT JOIN vwSecret ON vwSecret.ParentId = vwParent.ParentId WHERE vwParent.StartDate > '1/1/2008'
AND vwSecret.Description LIKE '%WHATEVER%'
Is there any way to specify the execution cost of the CLR UDF, udfExpensiveApiCall, such that the execution plan will call the UDF while it is absolutely necessary?
