I am working on an existing infrastructure and i do not have liberty to change much right now. I am in a situation where app issues update statistics command quite often. So frequently that sometimes one blocks another. Is there any way i can do something like this
IF ( update_statistics going on)
dont do anything
else
run update statistics
This is temporary solution untill i fix bad inline SQL code (in app) and use SPs.
At one of your client sides we have configured Always on with synchronous mode.Also we have schedule rebuild index and update statistics job which runs in night every alternate day. the issue is there are more then 100 sleeping queries which is blocking update statistics job.
I have to stop update statistics job manually once i come to office manually.
Once I have killed blocking sleeping query but then other sleeping query blocked it and so on.
Currently our database size is around 350G. It will grow up to 1.5 TB
We have the
Auto create statistics option :True,
auto update statistics option :True,
auto update statistics asynchronously option : False
at database level
we have a weekly job, update statistics running very long time. It is created through maintenance plan using the option full scan.
Previously they tested with sampling but instead of full scan running with the sampling effected the queries.
Is there option to avoid the long time job duration.
If we didn't run the statistics manually what will happen? How do you maintain statistics with large databases
Hi,
I am using SQL Server 2000 sp4 (standard edition); when I run an Update Stats command against a table I get error 3628:
UPDATE STATISTICS IMSV7.BLITEMRT WITH SAMPLE 20 PERCENT
Server: Msg 3628, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
A floating point exception occurred in the user process. Current transaction is canceled.
Does anyone know of a fix or a workaround?
Getting events in the default trace saying missing column statistics on a column...
1.The column is the primary key column ( identity )
I have been asked to create a report for one of our clients. The report is pretty basic but I am concerned about the overheads with my planned approach.The report is at a table and field grain to include values for:
* Min column value
* Max column value
* Number of discrete values
* Number of populated values (not NULL)
My current plan is to have a cursor over a limited view of sys.tables and sys.columns that will run a dynamic SQL query to import the results into a table that I can then output.There must be a better way of doing this and I don't have access to any DQS services.
I'm working on databases where statistics of some indexes (tables) are changing too frequently. Once I update them manually, one minute after they get 10-20% change, and five minutes after they get over 100% change. Tables get updated very frequently (multiple times in a second).
When I run a query to read from sys.stats, sys.dm_db_stats_properties and other dynamic views, I see that they were last updated when I did it manually, but the change rate overpassed the 500+20% (tables have multiples of 10K rows). Auto create and update statistics are set to true on all databases, and I don't know why sql server does not do that automatically.
If I rebuild some indexes that are above 30% of average fragmentation, should I after that update statistics?
Also, How can I see if I Need to update statistics^on the tables of my database?
I can easily find user created stat in a databaseSELECT * FROM DB.sys.stats WHERE user_created=1But how do I determine what tables those stats are in? with over 6000 tables I don't feel like looking through all the tables.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am using SQL 6.5. We have tables of upto 2.5GB in size. Running update statistics againts these tables takes too long, and locks out users.
Anyone know how I can make this quicker?
Davy
Hi,
I am contemplating creating a job to execute every 5 mins which will update index statisics if they are more than say 8% out. I would like to know what thoughts people have on this? i.e. pros and cons.
I like forward to what you have to say.
I have auto stats on. Our stats are often more than 10% out. At what level do you reckon the query plan might be effected by out of data stats?
Thanks
Jamie.
Is the Update Statistics found in a Maintenance Plan performed online or offline? Will it kick users out when this is run on SQL Server 2000?
Thanks
Hi,
It seems to me there are many ways to update statistics for a table. i.e. "sp_updatestats", "sp_recompile", "dbcc updateusage"
Can somebody tell me the difference between those commands and what's the best way for updating your statistics? Does reindexing update the statistics?
thx,
Wilfred van Dijk
HI,
To update statistics for entire DB i have taken the script from under given link.But need to know the
1 : what is sample percent on update statistics
2 : will it be applicable for 2005 ?
script taken from :
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/archive/2006/08/14/11194.aspx
kindly reply soon.
How do you schedule a weekly job to do "update statistics" thru all the databases?
View 6 Replies View RelatedHi All,
I update statistics for three tables every day 2:00 AM and in the job we call
one stored procedure and, in that stored procedure only three statements are
writtern for update statistics
Like:
Exec('update statistics TBL1 with fullscan')
Exec('update statistics TBL2 with fullscan')
Exec('update statistics TBL3 with fullscan')
And this job was working fine since many months but last two days its getting fail and it gives the error messages like :
could not continue scan with NOLOCK due to data movement
So could you help me what is the solution for this
Thanks,
Aric
Hi,
I would like to know when we upgrade SQL Server 2000 database to SQL Server 2005 is it required to update the statistics even if we rebuild all the indexes or create new indexes?
Thanks,
Ritesh
Hi,
I am planning to change our current UPDATE STATISTICS strategy, which is auto stats ON. Our database is terrabytes sizes and some tables with millions of rows with over 200 indexes in one table. Some of these indexes are not really used. Most of the tables are very small.
Droping and creating new indexes are quite often used in our environment. So static script may not help.
How can I identify most frequently used indexes in a table?
With the Microsft recommended auto stats ON, what are the best other practices I can include to improve the effeciency?
Any help would be apprecited. It would be realy great if any of you can share some scripts to generates dynamic scripts.
best regards
Priw
Hello,
Can "update statistics tablename" be run while the server is in multi-user mode and users accessing the table to be updated?????
Thanks in advance...
On a SQL 7 sp 2 server, I have a database with about about 77,000 records, with automatic update statistics on inserting 1000 records took 43 minutes. With automatic update off, it took 23 minutes to insert the same 1000 records. On the same machine, I inserted 1000 records into 2 other databases with the same database structure and automatic update statistics on. On the second database, there are about 174000 records and it took 35 minutes to insert 1000 records. On the third database, there are about 93000 records and it took 19 minutes to insert 1000 records.
Why is the time so high on the first database?
What can be done to fix the problem?
Thank you.
I have a query that retrieves a single record from searching on two tables.
The statement goes like this...
select sum(amount) from Table1 A union Table2 B on a.id = b.id
where date < ### and date > #### and account = ###
As people are running a particular report, this statement is executed time and
time again to pull up the numbers necesarry for the report. When the report gets slow, I can speed it up by updating the statistics. My concern is that I'm having to update the statistcs every hour; otherwise, the query becomes slow. I have noticed that users are inserting data while users are running the report on one of the tables listed above. I'm sure that's making it become more fragmented and ultimately slowing down the query.
Do you have any suggestion on how I can make the union of these two tables faster? Or is there anything I could do to speed the query besides creating clusted indexes?
Any help would be appreciated....thank you
I am maintaining a large table with millions of rows that has two non clustered indexes and data changing frequently, I need to keep the indexes fresh. Update Statistics runs much quicker than Reindex. What is the appropriate situation for each and why?
Thanks in advance.
Hi
We are upgrading from sql 7 to 2000.During the upgrade process do we have to do a reindexing of all tables or will update statistics take care of that.
Or do we have to do both?
What is the difference between reindexing and update statistics.
Thanks
Madhukar Gole
I have recently defragged my SQL server using INDEXDEFRAG. Can somebody please tell me how to update the statistics on all the tables? Thanks in advance.
Below is the script that I executed to defrag all the tables in my database if anyone needs this.
/*Perform a 'USE <database name>' to select the database in which to run the script.*/
-- Declare variables
SET NOCOUNT ON
DECLARE @tablename VARCHAR (128)
DECLARE @execstr VARCHAR (255)
DECLARE @objectid INT
DECLARE @indexid INT
DECLARE @frag DECIMAL
DECLARE @maxfrag DECIMAL
-- Decide on the maximum fragmentation to allow
SELECT @maxfrag = 20.0
-- Declare cursor
DECLARE tables CURSOR FOR
SELECT TABLE_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
-- Create the table
CREATE TABLE #fraglist (
ObjectName CHAR (255),
ObjectId INT,
IndexName CHAR (255),
IndexId INT,
Lvl INT,
CountPages INT,
CountRows INT,
MinRecSize INT,
MaxRecSize INT,
AvgRecSize INT,
ForRecCount INT,
Extents INT,
ExtentSwitches INT,
AvgFreeBytes INT,
AvgPageDensity INT,
ScanDensity DECIMAL,
BestCount INT,
ActualCount INT,
LogicalFrag DECIMAL,
ExtentFrag DECIMAL)
-- Open the cursor
OPEN tables
-- Loop through all the tables in the database
FETCH NEXT
FROM tables
INTO @tablename
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
-- Do the showcontig of all indexes of the table
INSERT INTO #fraglist
EXEC ('DBCC SHOWCONTIG (''' + @tablename + ''')
WITH FAST, TABLERESULTS, ALL_INDEXES, NO_INFOMSGS')
FETCH NEXT
FROM tables
INTO @tablename
END
-- Close and deallocate the cursor
CLOSE tables
DEALLOCATE tables
-- Declare cursor for list of indexes to be defragged
DECLARE indexes CURSOR FOR
SELECT ObjectName, ObjectId, IndexId, LogicalFrag
FROM #fraglist
WHERE LogicalFrag >= @maxfrag
AND INDEXPROPERTY (ObjectId, IndexName, 'IndexDepth') > 0
-- Open the cursor
OPEN indexes
-- loop through the indexes
FETCH NEXT
FROM indexes
INTO @tablename, @objectid, @indexid, @frag
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
PRINT 'Executing DBCC INDEXDEFRAG (0, ' + RTRIM(@tablename) + ',
' + RTRIM(@indexid) + ') - fragmentation currently '
+ RTRIM(CONVERT(varchar(15),@frag)) + '%'
SELECT @execstr = 'DBCC INDEXDEFRAG (0, ' + RTRIM(@objectid) + ',
' + RTRIM(@indexid) + ')'
EXEC (@execstr)
FETCH NEXT
FROM indexes
INTO @tablename, @objectid, @indexid, @frag
END
-- Close and deallocate the cursor
CLOSE indexes
DEALLOCATE indexes
-- Delete the temporary table
DROP TABLE #fraglist
GO
I am looking to run UPDATE STATISTICS for the first time, don't ask why it wasn't done prior please :(, on a set of large tables in our 346gb database whcih has been being populated with transactional data for the past 4 years. The tables contain 1.2, 35, 64, and 92 million rows. I have used the STAT_DATE function to determine that none of these tables have ever had update statistics run for them.
My question is how should I go about this process and what options should I be selecting when issuing the command? I assume that I must first run with the FULLSCAN paramater in order to initially generate statistics for the table then would assume that following this initial population I could run without any paramaters nightly against the tables in the database to keep statistics up to date. Any guideance you all could provide to a newb would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks! Scott Clark
Hi Gurus,
I need you update statistics on table .
Is there any command or stored procedure for this.
Thanks,
ServerTeam
Hi all,
I'm using SQL 7, there is a setting on DB properties called "Auto update statistics", what kind of statistics does this refers to and how can this stats be accessed?
Thanks for your help!
Gustavo
Thanks,
GS
Hi. I have automatic statistic update turned on for all my databases. Isthis an overhead I can do without? Could I update them overnight when thedatabase is hardly in use?Thanks--Chris Weston
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have Auto Create Statistics and Auto Update Statistics ON in one of my databases.
How do I know what time the Auto Update Statistics Kicks on ?
I dont see it in the log.
Is there a way for me to find out when was the last time Auto Update Statistics kicked on?
TIA
I am using the Maintencance Plan wizard, but it only allows me to either select the "reorganize data and indexes" option or the "update statistics" option (in the Optimizations tab). I can't select both of them. What is the reason for this?
joe
Hi all,
Is it neccessay to run the "Update Statistics" after run "DBCC DBReindex"? Does "Update Statistics" automatically update the stats?
Thanks in advance
Kim,
Hi all,
We are using SQL Server 2005. The auto update statistics and auto create statistics for a database is set to ON. This database has a very heavy work load. When I checked the individual statitics , still the last updated statistics is in a old date value (few months ago).
Is it necessary to manually update the statistics for the same database? Or can we rely upon "auto update statistics" itself ?
Usually in what frequency the manual UPDATE STATISTICS should be run on production system which has heavy transactions ?
Thanks & Regards,
Hariarul
Hi all ,
We had a SQL server (2005) that was performing very bad . We thought of doing an UPDATE STATISTICS thinking that the response times would increase.
BUT , UNFORTUNATELY THE SERVER PERFORMANCE BECAME WORSE FROM BAD.
Ex : Stored procedures that took 2 minutes are running for 22 minutes now. Queris that ran for 17 seconds are running for 14 minutes now.
Anybody faced this kind of issue earlier ? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks & Regards,
Hariarul