Hi All,
I am getting slower performance of select statements in MS SQL. I am
finding select statements in MS SQL are even slower than MS ACCESS. Is
there any way to improve the performance of select statements in MS
SQL by tuning the database of anything else??
Thanks in advance!
Hoque
Hi,
We have a poorly performing SQL 2000 db. i have just defragged ( the HD, not indexes, these are done daily via SQL Agent) the data files of our server and have not found any improvement in response.
I have now got into using SQL profiler to analyse the server performance. in the results that the trace is returning there are some huge (REALLY BIG) values for the duration and cpu values but these rows have no textdata value returned (ie it is null)
why is this? for these rows, the reads and writes columns are also high.
if these rows are what is taking the cpu's time then how can i identify what the server is doing to make any changes?
any thoughts on what other values i might trace or what action i can take to find the slow down cause?
in performance manager the processors (dual Xeons) are rarely dropping below 60%.
thanks in advance
fatherjack
Dear Experts,
I'm a DBA, Working for a Product based company.
We are implementing our product for a certain client of huge OLTP.
our reports team is facing problem (error: all the reports are timed out).though the queries are written properly, Each query is taking some minutes of time.
I've given the command DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS.
the time immediately dropped to 10 sec.
now my question is :
please suggest me the DBCC commands or any DBA related commands to improve the performance of the application for my reports team.
Thanks in advance.
Vinod
Hi All,
from your experience in SQL 2005 - do i have any free software that can help in improve performance or can help in identifying performance bottleneck. two examples of performance and help that i use usually use are the maintenance plan that do (check DB > reorganized index > rebuild index > update statics) and the second software is the SQL 2005 DASHBOARD for the reporting help.
do you have any other free tools and help that you can give me for performance or any thing that i must have in my SQL 2005 servers.
Thx
I have a table called work_order which has over 1 million records and acontractor table which has over 3000 records.When i run this query ,it takes long time since its grouping bycontractor and doing multiple sub SELECTs.is there any way to improve performance of this query ??-------------------------------------------------SELECT ckey,cnam,t1.contractor_id,count(*) as tcnt,(SELECT count(*) FROM work_order t2 WHEREt1.contractor_id=t2.contractor_id and rrstm=1 and rcdt is NULL) as r1,(SELECT count(*) FROM work_order t3 WHEREt1.contractor_id=t3.contractor_id and rrstm=2 and rcdt is NULL) as r2,(SELECT count(*) FROM work_order t4 WHEREt1.contractor_id=t4.contractor_id and rrstm=3 and rcdt is NULL) as r3,SELECT count(*) FROM work_order t5 WHEREt1.contractor_id=t5.contractor_id and rrstm=4 and rcdt is NULL) as r4,(SELECT count(*) FROM work_order t6 WHEREt1.contractor_id=t6.contractor_id and rrstm=5 and rcdt is NULL) as r5,(SELECT count(*) FROM work_order t7 WHEREt1.contractor_id=t7.contractor_id and rrstm=6 and rcdt is NULL) as r6,SELECT count(*) FROM work_order t8 WHEREt1.contractor_id=t8.contractor_id and rcdt is NULL) as open_count,(SELECT count(*) FROM work_order t9 WHEREt1.contractor_id=t9.contractor_id and vendor_rec is not NULL) asAck_count,(SELECT count(*) FROM work_order t10 WHEREt1.contractor_id=t10.contractor_id and (rtyp is NULL or rtyp<>'R') andrcdt is NULL) as open_norwoFROM work_order t1,contractor WHEREt1.contractor_id=contractor.contractor_id andcontractor.tms_user_id is not NULL GROUP BYckey,cnam,t1.contractor_id ORDER BY cnam*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
View 2 Replies View RelatedHey guys,Here's my situation:I have a table called lets say 'Tree', as illustred bellow:Tree====TreeId (integer)(identity) not nullL1(integer)L2(integer)L3(integer)....L10(integer)The combination of the values of L1 thru L10 is called a "Path" , andL1 thru L10 values are stored in a second table lets say called'Leaf':Leaf====LeafId (integer)(identity) not nullLeatText varchar(2000)Here's my problem:I need to lookup for a given keyword in each path of the tree table,and return each individual column for the paths that match thecriteria. Here's the main idea of how I have this now.SELECT TreeId,L1,L2,...,L10, GetText(L1) + GetText(L2) as L2text + ...+ GetText(L10) AS PathTextINTO #tmp FROM Tree //GetText is a lookup function for the Leaf tableSELECT L1,GetText(L1),L2,GetText(L2),...,L10,GetText(L10) FROM #tmpWHERECharIndex(@keyword,a.pathtext) > 0Does anyone would know a better,smart, more efficient way toaccomplish this task? :)Thks,
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I'm facing a performance issue with the following query...
The Output of the following Query is 184 Records and it takes 2 to 3 secs to execute the query.
SELECT DISTINCT Column1 FROM Table1 (NOLOCK) WHERE Column1 NOT IN
(SELECT T1.Column1 FROM Table1 T1(NOLOCK) JOIN Table2 T2 (NOLOCK)
ON T2.Column2 = T1.Column2 WHERE T2.Column3= <Value>)
Data Info.
No of records in Table1 --> 1377366
No. of distinct records of Column1 in Table1 --> 33240
Is there any way the above query can be rewritten to improve the performance, which should take less than 1 sec...
(I'm using DISTINCT because there are Duplicate records of Column1 inTable1 )
Any of your help in this regard will be greately appreciated.
--
ash
I am not an expert in either SSIS or VFP technology but know enough to get my way round. One anomaly I did discover I thought was worth sharing for all those concerned with getting large amounts of data out of VFP in as short a time as possible. When you search for performance tips in relation to SSIS the advice is to never use select table or view from data access mode list in ole db source as this effectively translates to select * from table and I've never come across anything to contradict this €“ well I am and let me explain why:
When you use SQL command as data access mode in ole db source (where ole db source is foxpro dbc) and you write out select column1, column 2 etc etc from table a etc etc and then connect that to a destination (in my case ole db destination) the SSIS task spends ages stuck on Pre-execute before anything happens (the bigger the fox tbl the longer the wait). What is happening behind scenes is that the foxpro engine (assuming its foxpro engine and not sql engine €“ either way don€™t think it matters too much) is executing the sql command and then writing results to a tmp (temp) file on your local temp folder €“ (in my case : C:Documents and SettingsautologinLocal SettingsTemp1). These files take up gigs of space and it is only when this process is complete does the SSIS task actually finish the Pre-execute and start the data transfer process. I couldn€™t understand a) why my packages were stuck on pre-execute for such long times? and b) why were the tmp files being created and why they were soo big?
If you change from SQL command in source to Table or view and then select your table from list the SSIS task when executed kicks off immediately and doesn€™t get stuck on pre-execute nor create any tmp files €“ so you save time and disk space. The difference in time is immense and if like me you were really frustrated with poor performance when extracting from VFP now you know why.
Btw maybe this does not apply to all versions of VFP but it certainly does to v7.
Hi,
I have database D1 which contains 5 million users and one more database D2 having 95k Users.
i wanted to insert common users into new database D3 based on filter which is Phone number and is unique value. Below is the structure of my tables in D1 and D2:
D1(database)
UserProfiles(Table)
UserId (Column Name)
UserProfiledata (Column Name)
D2 (database)
Alerts (Table)
PhoneNumbers (ColumnName - Unique)
Now userProfiles table contains data in string format as below:
User.state AA User.City CC User.Pin 1234 User.phonenumber 987654
so iam parsing for each user using cursor and writing phone numbers into some temp table and wanted to query D2 database to verify whether this phone number exists in Alerts Table of D2 database.
can anyone please suggest on how i can go ahead with this and also help me on how to improve perfomance.
Thanks,
-Veera
Hi everyone
I need a solution for this query. It is working fine for 2 tables but when there are 1000's of records in each table and query has more than 2 tables. The process never ends.
Here is the query
(select siqPid= 1007, t1.Gmt909Time as GmtTime,(t1.engValue+t2.engValue+t3.engValue+t4.engValue) as EngValue,
t1.Loc1Time as locTime,t1.msgId
into #temp5
from #temp1 as t1,#temp2 as t2,#temp3 as t3,#temp4 as t4
where t1.Loc1Time = t2.Loc1Time and t2.Loc1Time = t3.Loc1Time and t3.Loc1Time = t4.Loc1Time)
I was trying to do something with this query.
But the engValues cant be summed up. and if I add that in the query, the query isnt compiling.
(select siqPid= 1007, t1.Gmt909Time as GmtTime,
t1.Loc1Time as locTime,t1.msgId,(t1.engValue+t2.engValue+t3.engValue+t4.engValue) as engValue
--into #temp5
from #temp1 as t1
where exists
(Select 1
from #temp2 as t2
where t1.Loc1Time = t2.Loc1Time and
exists
(Select 1
from #temp3 as t3
where t2.Loc1Time = t3.Loc1Time and
exists
(Select 1
from #temp4 as t4
where t3.Loc1Time = t4.Loc1Time))))
I need immediate help on that, I would appreciate an input on it.
Thanks
-Sarah
I should add an Identity field (Identity=True) and a row version field(timestamp) to my table, and avoid to arrange tables into different databases, is it true in general?
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TIA
-XLDB
Hello,
I have the following setup and I would appreciate any help in improving
the performance of the query.
BigTable:
Column1 (indexed)
Column2 (indexed)
Column3 (no index)
Column4 (no index)
select
[time] =
CASE
when BT.Column3 = 'value1' then DateAdd(...)
when BT.Column3 in ('value2', 'value3') then DateAdd(...)
END,
Duration =
CASE
when BT.Column3 = 'value1' then DateDiff(...)
when BT.Column3 in ('value2', 'value3') then DateDiff(ss,
BT.OrigTime, (select TOP 1 X.OrigTime from BigTable X where X.Column1 >
BT.Column1 and X.Column3 <> 'value4' order by X.Column1 ))
END,
FROM
BigTable BT where BT.Column3 = 'value1' OR (BT.Column3 in ('value2',
'value3') and BT.Column4 <> (select X.Column4 from BigTable X where
X.Column1 = BT.Column1 and X.Column3 = 'Value1'))
Apart from the above mentioned, there are a few more columns which are
just a part of select statement and are not in any condition statments.
The BigTable has around 1 Mil records and the response time is very
poor, it takes around 3 mins to retrieve the records (which would be
around 500K)
With the Statistics ON,
I get the following:
Table 'BigTable'. Scan count 2, logical reads 44184, physical reads 0,
read-ahead reads 0.
Table 'WorkTable'. Scan count 541221, logical reads 4873218, physical
reads 0, read-ahead reads 0.
Is there any way to increase the performance, so that I can get the
result under 1 minute?
Any help would be appreciated.
P.S: I tried indexing the Column3, but no improvement.
-SR
I have this queston that I cannot get a clear answer on. I have searched the internet to find out if using foreign keys have any performane benefits but some articles yes and some say no. So what should I believe here. Does foreign keys have any performance benefits.
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I have a table that contains an ntext column for storing values up to a couple of Mb in size.
However, I estimate that 95% of the values stored in this ntext field will fit into an nvarchar(4000) field.
Is it worth me having both fields in the table?
i.e. For rows where the values < 4000 characters I would store the value in the nvarchar column. Otherwise I would use the ntext column.
Can anyone confirm whether this technique would increase performance given that ntext values are sort of stored separately to the rest of the table data?
A colleague of mine is an Oracle DBA and he mentioned this technique is fairly caommonly adopted in the Oracle world.
Thanks
Matt
i have column in table which contains tabs and " i want replace with space...i am using repalce function is thier other way to improve performance with out using replace function.
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i've tried with indexed views, but because the view is referenceing another view, i was unable to create a clustered index on that view.
so please let me know how can i improve the performance of the view.
thank you very much
Vinod
Even you learn 1%, Learn it with 100% confidence.
Hello,I have the following setup and I would appreciate any help in improvingthe performance of the query.BigTable:Column1 (indexed)Column2 (indexed)Column3 (no index)Column4 (no index)select[time] =CASEwhen BT.Column3 = 'value1' then DateAdd(...)when BT.Column3 in ('value2', 'value3') then DateAdd(...)END,Duration =CASEwhen BT.Column3 = 'value1' then DateDiff(...)when BT.Column3 in ('value2', 'value3') then DateDiff(ss,BT.OrigTime, (select TOP 1 X.OrigTime from BigTable X where X.Column1 >BT.Column1 and X.Column3 <> 'value4' order by X.Column1 ))END,FROMBigTable BT where BT.Column3 = 'value1' OR (BT.Column3 in ('value2','value3') and BT.Column4 <> (select X.Column4 from BigTable X whereX.Column1 = BT.Column1 and X.Column3 = 'Value1'))Apart from the above mentioned, there are a few more columns which arejust a part of select statement and are not in any condition statments.The BigTable has around 1 Mil records and the response time is verypoor, it takes around 3 mins to retrieve the records (which would bearound 500K)With the Statistics ON,I get the following:Table 'BigTable'. Scan count 2, logical reads 44184, physical reads 0,read-ahead reads 0.Table 'WorkTable'. Scan count 541221, logical reads 4873218, physicalreads 0, read-ahead reads 0.Is there any way to increase the performance, so that I can get theresult under 1 minute?Any help would be appreciated.P.S: I tried indexing the Column3, but no improvement.
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We are thinking about buying new harddrives to improve sql server performance. Currently TEMPDB is running on a dedicated RAID 0 with 3 harddrives of 136 GB, 10.000 RPM. When running a large bulk insert within a SSIS package to 15 destination tables we notice high numbers in the Avg. and current Read Queue length (above 3000) of the drive where TEMPB is on. No other programs or swap file is using this RAID 0 drive. Can anyone tell me if it is worth buying 4 harddrives of 15.000 RPM each 33 GB big replacing the current 3 drives? How much impact will it have on the Avg. and Current Read queue length and will it improve the time sql server needs to bulk insert data?
Thanks.
Marc
Hi, I am using compact framework 1.1 and SQL CE database for my mobile application. My database has a total of 160000 rows of records and whenever i do a query searching, it will take about 20 seconds to look through the whole database if the record does not exist. Is there any method to improve the searching performance? i am using data reader for the query.
Thanks.
I am making a ASP.NET web application that involves 2 SQL Server(A & B).
I created a view in SQL server A pointing to the table in SQL Server B. I found out my application will run REALLY slow when accessing such a view. so I try to avoid using them. But in the case of 2 table joining from 2 different SQL Servers, I have no choice.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks!
Hi,I am using SQL 2000 and has a table that contains more than 2 millionrows of data (and growing). Right now, I have encountered 2 problems:1) Sometimes, when I try to query against this table, I would get sqlcommand time out. Hence, I did more testing with Query Analyser and tofind out that the same queries would not always take about the sametime to be executed. Could anyone please tell me what would affect thespeed of the query and what is the most important thing among all thefactors? (I could think of the opened connections, server'sCPU/Memory...)2) I am not sure if 2 million rows is considered a lot or not, however,it start to take 5~10 seconds for me to finish some simple queries. Iam wondering what is the best practices to handle this amount of datawhile having a decent performance?Thank you,Charlie Chang[Charlies224@hotmail.com]
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a SQL Server 2005 database where covering indexes had to be used to improve performance for the heavy amounts of retrievals; however, the inserts into the tables are now very slow of course. Is there any way to improve the performance of the inserts without taking away the indexes.
Would changing locking or partitioning the index help the inserts?
Other databases use a concept of "freespace" to set up in the beginning - making pre-existing space for inserts - is there anything like this in SQL Server 2005?
Thanks for any help, Mary
Hi!!
In our SQL server is installed in Windows 2003 Standard edition. there about 30 clients using SQL server....
* How to improve SQL server performance ??
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* Should I use 2 Network Adapter Card???
Any idea please...
thanks...
Hi,
I'm using version 3.5.5386.0 of SqlServerCompact Edition for windows mobile.
My first tests indicates that an insert statement with '?' ist 20 % faster than with '@p1' parameters:
"INSERT INTO Itest(PKey,value1,value2,value3,Date1) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?)"
"INSERT INTO Itest(PKey,value1,value2,value3,Date1) VALUES (@P1,@2,@3,@P4,@P5)"
I've no explanation for that. I reported some problems with the '?' parameters in my other task http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2715685&SiteID=1
So I'm a little bit afraid to use this version.
Is there a recommandation which version to use for Inserts?
Thanks,
Stefan
Hello, how can i merge together several select statements?
I have something like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE Forum_GetThreads @ID int,@AscDesc bitASBEGINSET NOCOUNT ON;SELECT * FROM forum_ansageSELECT * FROM forum_topics WHERE (status = 0) ORDER BY (created) DESCIF (@AscDesc = 0)BEGIN SELECT * FROM forum_topics WHERE (status > 0) ORDER BY (created) DESCENDELSEBEGIN SELECT * FROM forum_topics WHERE (status > 0) ORDER BY (created) ASCENDHere i want to merge them all together and return only one SELECT statement with all the data
Both of these work fine separately; How do I join these two Select Statements?
SELECT MPI.CREATE_DT,MPI.MPI_NBR, MPI.LAST_NM,MPI.FIRST_NM,
MPI_CURRENT_ADDR.ADDR_NBR, MPI_CURRENT_ADDR.ADDRESS_1, MPI_CURRENT_ADDR.ADDRESS_2,
MPI_CURRENT_ADDR.CITY,MPI_CURRENT_ADDR.STATE_CD,MPI_CURRENT_ADDR.ZIP_CD,MPI_CURRENT_ADDR.PHN_NBR,
MPI_PERSON.BIRTHDAY,MPI_PERSON.SEX
FROM MPI,MPI_CURRENT_ADDR,MPI_PERSON
WHERE (MPI.MPI_NBR=MPI_PERSON.MPI_NBR) AND (MPI.ADDR_NBR=MPI_CURRENT_ADDR.ADDR_NBR)
AND
MPI.CREATE_DT>=20070101
ORDER BY MPI.CREATE_DT
SELECT PATIENT.PAT_NBR,PATIENT.PHYS_NBR, PHYSICIAN.FIRST_NM,PHYSICIAN.LAST_NM,PHYSICIAN.DE_NBR, PHYSICIAN.SALUTATION_CD
FROM PATIENT, PHYSICIAN
WHERE PATIENT.PHYS_NBR=PHYSICIAN.PHYS_NBR
Thanks!
Lisa
I have a table that list Canadian provinces and American States it looks something like this:
ID | ProvState
Under ID 1-13 lists the Canadian provinces and everything over 13 lists the American states. I want to create 1 query that will list the Canadian provinces first in alphabetical order then the States in alphabetical order.
I have tried using UNION but it's not returning what I want and it does not allow me to use order by for the first statement.
SELECT * FROM SPProvince WHERE ID < 14 ORDER BY ProvState
UNION
SELECT * FROM SPProvince WHERE ID > 13 ORDER BY ProvState
Anyone have any suggestions to this problem?
Arnie and All others. Thanks for your help.
The previous case became lenghty and then just mixed up a lot.
To make it easy I have created two temp tables and wrote to test select statement .
You will notice that I tired two select statement but they are giving different set of result however the 2nd Select statement not giving the result as should be looking at the following requirement.
--Selected record must RaType='b'
-- PlanID='H321'
-- Gender='0'
--
--And not to include in select if any one of these meets:
-- Hosp='1' in other words it has to be 0
-- ESRD='1' or Rafctor Type in ('g','f') in other words ESRD should be 0 and rafctorType in ('h','i')
-- Dod is not null in other words Dod has to be null
--
--copy from here
GO
Create table #MyTable
( RowID int IDENTITY,
RD varchar(10),
RAType varchar(5),
History varchar(15)
)
INSERT INTO #MyTable VALUES ( '1', 'A', '1111' )
INSERT INTO #MyTable VALUES ( '2', 'S','2222' )
INSERT INTO #MyTable VALUES ( '3', 'D', '2345')
INSERT INTO #MyTable VALUES ( '4', 'I2','1234' )
INSERT INTO #MyTable VALUES ( '5', 'C','3333' )
INSERT INTO #MyTable VALUES ( '1', 'B','4444' )
INSERT INTO #MyTable VALUES ( '2', 'X','5555' )
INSERT INTO #MyTable VALUES ( '1', 'D' ,'66666')
GO
Go
Create Table #MYTable2
(
RowID int IDentity,
RD varchar(10),
RaType varchar(5),
History varchar(15),
PlanID varchar(6),
Hosp varchar(2),
ESRD varchar(2),
RafctorType varchar(3),
gender varchar(5),
dod varchar (5) NULL
)
INSERT INTO #MyTable2 VALUES ( '1', 'A', '1111', 'H321', '0','0', 'g', '0' ,NULL)
INSERT INTO #MyTable2 VALUES ( '2', 'b', '2222', 'H321', '0','0', 'e', '0',NULL )
INSERT INTO #MyTable2 VALUES ( '2', 'b', '3333', 'H321', '0','0', 'f', '0',NULL )
INSERT INTO #MyTable2 VALUES ( '2', 'b', '4444', 'H321', '0', '0','d', '0',NULL )
Go
Select #MYtable2.History from #MYTable2
INNER JOIN #mytable on #myTable2.History=#mytable.history
Where #MyTable2.RaType='b' And PlanID='H321' And Gender='0' And Hosp<>'1' And ESRD<>'1' AND RafctorType Not in ('g','f') AND Dod is NULL
Select #Mytable2.History from #MyTable2
INNER JOIN #mytable on #mytable2.History=#mytable.history
where #mytable2.Ratype='b' AND PlanID='H321' AND Gender='0' AND(Hosp<>'1') or ((ESRD<>'1') or (RafctorType Not in ('g','f')) OR DOD is NULL)
Go
drop table #Mytable2
Drop table #MYtable
I have a problem where my users complain that a select statement takes too long, at 90 seconds, to read 120 records out of a database.
The select statement reads from 9 tables three of which contain 1000000 records, the others contain between 100 and 250000 records.
I have checked that each column in the joins are indexed - they are (but some of them are clustered indexes, not unclustered).
I have run the SQL Profiler trace from the run of the query through the "Database Engine Tuning Advisor". That just suggested two statistics items which I added (no benefit) and two indexes for tables that are not involved at all in the query (I didn't add these).
I also ran the query through the Query window in SSMS with "Include Actual Execution Plan" enabled. This showed that all the execution time was being taken up by searches of the clustered indexes.
I have tried running the select with just three tables involved, and it completes fast. I added a fourth and it took 7 seconds. However there was no WHERE clause for the fourth table, so I got a cartesian product which might have explained the problem.
So my question is: Is it normal for such a type of read query to take 90 seconds to complete?
Is there anything I could do to speed it up.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks