Select Statement Is Very Slow - How Can I Speed This Up?
Nov 14, 2007
The following stored procedure is run whenever someone searches my database. When I first created the site, this search took less than 3 seconds. Now, there is more data in the system and the search is taking over 30 seconds.
I am not very good with SQL and I'm sure I am doing some dumb things. Is there a better way to write this query to speed things up?
Thanks a lot,
Chris MessineoSET ANSI_NULLS ON
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SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
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-- =============================================
-- Author:Chris Messineo
-- Create date: 4/27/2007
-- Description:Get Search
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ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[Search]
@Keyword as varchar(40)=NULL
AS
BEGIN
SELECT
Script.Title,
Script.ScriptID,
Script.Logline,
Member.Name
FROM
Script
Join Contest on (Script.ContestID=Contest.ContestID)
Join ScriptComment on (Script.ScriptID=ScriptComment.ScriptID)
Join Member on (Script.MemberID=Member.MemberID)
WHERE
(Title like '%' + COALESCE(@Keyword, Title) + '%' or
Logline like '%' + COALESCE(@Keyword, Logline) + '%' or
Comments like '%' + COALESCE(@Keyword, Comments) + '%')
GROUP BY
Script.Title,
Script.ScriptID,
Script.Logline,
Member.Name
ORDER BY
Title
END
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Ok I have a query "SELECT ColumnNames FROM tbl1" let's say the values returned are "age,sex,race".
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Code Block SELECT DISTINCT Field01 AS 'Field01', Field02 AS 'Field02' FROM myTables WHERE Conditions are true ORDER BY Field01
The results are just as I need:
Field01 Field02
------------- ----------------------
192473 8461760
192474 22810
Because other reasons. I need to modify that query to:
Code Block SELECT DISTINCT Field01 AS 'Field01', Field02 AS 'Field02' INTO AuxiliaryTable FROM myTables WHERE Conditions are true ORDER BY Field01 SELECT DISTINCT [Field02] FROM AuxTable The the results are:
Field02
----------------------
22810 8461760
And what I need is (without showing any other field):
Field02
----------------------
8461760 22810
Is there any good suggestion? Thanks in advance for any help, Aldo.
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following part of the procedure clears my requirement.
SELECT E.EmployeeID, CASE E.EmployeeType WHEN 1 THEN select * from Tbl1 WHEN 2 THEN select * from Tbl2 WHEN 3 THEN select * from Tbl3 END FROM EMPLOYEE E
can any one help me in this? please give me a sample query.
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