Does SQL Server allow a table scan to be used when querying a table that has a clustered-index? If yes, could someone please show me the syntax? I have tried with (index(0)) but this appararently means a clustered index scan when there is a clustered index on the table to be queried.
Or does clustered index scan mean the same thing as a table scan when the table has a clustered index? Confused.
This is on Sybase but I'm guessing that the same situation would happen on SQL Server. (Please confirm if you know).
I'm looking at these new databases and I'm seeing code similar to this all over the place:
if not exists (select 1 from dbo.t1 where f1 = @p1) begin select @errno = @errno | 1 end
There's a unique clustered in dex on t1.f1.
The execution plan shows this for this statement:
FROM TABLE dbo.t1 EXISTS TABLE : nested iteration. Table Scan. Forward scan. Positioning at start of table.
It's not using my index!!!!!
It seems to be the case with EXISTS statements. Can anybody confirm?
I also hinted to use the index but it still didn't use it.
If the existence check really doesn't use the index, what's a good code alternative to this check?
I did this and it's working great but I wonder if there's a better alternative. I don't really like doing the SET ROWCOUNT 1 and then SET ROWCOUNT 0 thing. SELECT TOP 1 won't work on Sybase, :-(.
SET ROWCOUNT 1 SELECT @cnt = (SELECT 1 FROM dbo.t1 (index ix01) WHERE f1 = @p1 ) SET ROWCOUNT 0
Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the Table Scan(1 million rows)being performed on the The last line, option (loop loin) stopped table scanning the B.ss_manifest and started using the index, I'd like both tables to use the index. This is the argument I get from execution plan under the table scan. Object ((D4000).(dbo).(shipstop)as (A))
update drivers set dr_miles_run = case when D1.miles > 0 then d1.miles else 0 end from (select mf_dr_nbr, sum( case when A.ss_end_dt < '05/17/00' then ( cast((datediff(day, '05/17/00' , B.ss_end_dt ) + 1) as float) / cast( (datediff(day, A.ss_end_dt , B.ss_end_dt ) + 1) as float) * mf_ld_miles) else mf_ld_miles end) as miles from manifest, shipstop A, shipstop B where mf_manifest_nbr = A.ss_manifest_nbr and mf_manifest_nbr = B.ss_manifest_nbr and A.ss_stop_type in ('OR','SA') and B.ss_stop_type in ('DT','RD') and ((A.ss_end_dt >= '05/17/00 00:00' and A.ss_end_dt < '05/24/00 00:00') OR ((B.ss_end_dt >= '05/17/00 00:00' and B.ss_end_dt < '05/24/00 00:00'))) and mf_status > 3 group by mf_dr_nbr ) as D1 where Drivers.dr_driver_nbr = D1.mf_dr_nbr option (loop join)
Hi I'm issuing a SELECT on a field with the SUM on SQL Server 7. I have an index on the field in the WHERE clause but upon analysis, the Query Optimizer always uses a Full Table Scan. Can anyone explain why and is there a way to use the index.
HEre's the structure: SELECT SUM(colA) FROM TABLE tblB GROUP BY colC
This function results in a table scan *GASP!!!!* (at least that's what the 'splain plan tells me when I run it in SQL Analyzer). Before I made it into the function, when I was testing the code in SQL Analyzer, it resulted NOT in a table scan, but rather a series of nested loops (the joins) and clustered index seeks...resulting in about 1/3 the total cost of the function.
I suspected originally that it was the TOP/ORDER BY that the function insisted upon, but even if I remove those, still get a table scan.
Wassup? Why does the function turn my cool lil' self-join into a table scan? Whut am I missing? Any thoughts? Disgusted Derisions? Hurled Insults? Bring it on!!! (please! ;) )
My predecessor did this in a similar project using a separate cursor for each portfolio by date, then looped through the dates, pulling in the per-portfolio index value and building the output table. I would rather avoid the cursors if I can.
I have to retrieve 10.000 - 40.000 records by their ids (<3seconds would be sufficent) I first used single requests, then one single command as batch (simply joined the single commands into one string). But that was very slow (30 seconds if cached). so I created one big statement
select myfields from mytable where id in(1,2,..,35000)
if everything is cached the speed is fine (<1second), but if I retrieve the data for the first time it takes 15-30 seconds, that's a bit too slowish.
the total database size is 100MB - so a file scan should be faster, I thought at least
so HERE is the problem why I post this
to force the table scan I used Select myFields From mytable With (Index(0) ...
that took > 3 minutes
I tested the raw IO-time, that was 2,5-3 seconds with the db-file
has SQL Server a problem with the 35.000 items in the condition? (If it loopes 35.000 x 160.000 times instead of using a hash for the items that would explain the slow speed)
or another reason: is table scanning always much slower then the raw io operations?
the id-index is not grouped and ( I really don't know why) not marked as primary key, but that shouldn't have any impact on a file-scan, I guess.
I have following query to delete the data from fact history table based on fact table. logid, level and post_date uniquely identify the rows on both fact and history table. I want to create indexes on the joined columns.I tried with clustered index (logid, level and post_date) it gives clustered index scan. I also tried with non clustered indexes on each column (logid, level and post_date) but still getting table scan. Do you have any suggestion on which columns should I create proper indexes to avoid table or index scan? There are about 6 million rows on each table.
DELETE xbar_fact_history FROM xbar_fact_history AS a INNER JOIN xbar_fact AS b ON a.logid = b.logid AND a.level = b.level AND a.post_date = b.post_date AND a.check_CheckSum <> BINARY_CHECKSUM(b.out_mins,b.nor_hrs,b.pdi_call)
I have a stored procedure that's running a little slower than I would like. I've executed the stored proc in QA and looked at the execution plan and it looks like the problem is in a trigger on one of the updated tables. The update on this table is affecting one row (I've specified the entire unique primary key, so I know this to be the case). Within my trigger there is some code to save an audit trail of the data. One of these statements does an update of the history table based on the inserted and deleted tables. For some reason this is taking 11.89% of the batch cost (MUCH more than any other statement) and within this statement 50% of the cost is for a table scan on inserted and 50% is for a table scan on deleted. These pseudo-tables should only contain one record each though.
Any ideas why this would be causing such a problem? I've included a simplified version of the update below. The "or" statements actually continue for all columns in the table. The same trigger template is used for all tables in the database and none of the others seem to exhibit this behavior as far as I can tell.
Thanks for any help! -Tom.
UPDATE H_MyTable SET HIST_END_DT = @tran_date FROM H_MyTable his INNER JOIN deleted del ON (his.PrimaryKey1 = del.PrimaryKey1) and (his.PrimaryKey2 = del.PrimaryKey2) INNER JOIN inserted ins ON (his.PrimaryKey1 = ins.PrimaryKey1) and (his.PrimaryKey2 = ins.PrimaryKey2) WHERE (his.HIST_END_DT is null) and ((IsNull(del.PrimaryKey1, -918273645) <> IsNull(ins.PrimaryKey1, -918273645)) or (IsNull(del.PrimaryKey2, -918273645) <> IsNull(ins.PrimaryKey2, -918273645)) or (IsNull(del.Column3, -918273645) <> IsNull(ins.Column3, -918273645)))
I am doing sp tuning. It has several lines. SO I divided into several small queries and executed individually and check the execution plans. In one small query, I found table scan is happening. That query is basically retrieving all columns from a table but the table doesn't have any pk or Indexes. So is it better to create non-clustered index to remove table sca.
I have a table with clustered index on that. I have only 5 columns in that table. Execution plan is showing that Index scan occurred. What are the cause of the Index scan how can we change that to index seek?
I am giving that kind of similar query below
SELECT @ProductID= ProductID FROM Product WITH (NOLOCK) WHERE SalesID= '@salesId' and Product = 'Clothes '
-- populate declare @i int set @i = 1000 while @i > 0 begin insert into dbo.test1 select @i, '1.' + cast(@i as varchar(5)) set @i = @i - 1 end
insert into dbo.test2 select 1, '2.1' union all select 2, '2.2' go
-- create view create view dbo.vw_Test as select1 as QueryID, TestName fromdbo.Test1 union all select2 as QueryID, TestName fromdbo.Test2; go
-- this works as i want, only scans table dbo.Test2 select * fromdbo.vw_Test whereQueryId = 2
-- joining to a table triggers scan of both tables in view: declare @table table (QueryID int) insert into @table select 2;
selectvt.TestName fromdbo.vw_Test vt join@table t on vt.QueryID = t.QueryID
Using the showplan I can see why the optimizer ends up scanning all tables, but maybe there is a way to force it to use the QueryID param evaluation earlier in the filtering.
I've been having some trouble getting a single-column "varchar(5)" field to reliably use a table seek instead of a table scan. The production table in this case contains 25 million rows. As impressive as it is to scan 25 million rows in 35 seconds, the query should run much faster.
Typically, this table is accessed with a query that includes:
SELECT ... FROM SummaryTable WHERE ixZIP IN (SELECT ZipCode FROM @ZipCodesForMO)
This query insists on using a table scan. I've tried WITH (FORCESEEK) for example, but that just makes the query fail.
As I've investigated this issue I also tried:
SELECT * FROM Summaries WHERE ZipCode IN ('xxxxx', 'xxxxx', 'xxxxx')
When I run this query with 64 or fewer (actual, valid) ZIP codes, the query uses a table seek.But when I give it 65 or more ZIP codes it uses a table scan.
To summarize, the production query always uses a table scan, and when I specify 65 or more ZIP codes the query also uses a table scan. I'm wondering if the data type of the indexed column (Latin1_General_100_BIN2) is somehow the problem. I'll likely try converting the ZIP codes to an integer to see what happens.
hi i have table i use it for update insert and the users use this table from a grid on the web and i need to prevent from white space in the fields in table so how to create TRIGGER remove white space from a fields in table scan and fix it ?
I write a work about database, and I want to write the diffrence between Table scan and Index scan. When is the index scan effectient? Use the database a Table scan when there is an index on the table or always a index scan when the index is nonselective? Can be a Table Scan effecient than a index scan?
I am having problems w/ the indexes on a particular table. Currently the scan density if 25%. I have ran the dbcc dbreindex and the scan density does not improve. I have manually dropped and recreated all of the indexes on the table (there are only two) and still no help.
I have a clustered Primary Key index on my part_number and project_number fields and another index on the project_number field. If I drop the second index and only have my primary key index, it still doesn't help. The fill factor was originally set to 90% and I changed this to 30%, 20%, 10%, 0% and the best scan density I could acheive was 50%.
The data in this table is not updated that often, on average about 15 records a day are updated, and there are only 107 records. This is a small table, but there is a possibility for it to grow rapidly and I want to be prepared now.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I've tried everything I can think of with no luck.
CREATE TABLE #t7e07c01fa80143ff84cb14a2307809f7 ( [AUTOID_TEMP] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL, ... ) ON [PRIMARY]
ALTER TABLE #t7e07c01fa80143ff84cb14a2307809f7 ADD CONSTRAINT [PK_t7e07c01fa80143ff84cb14a2307809f7] PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED ( [AUTOID_TEMP] ) ON [PRIMARY]
Insert Into #t7e07c01fa80143ff84cb14a2307809f7 Selet columns... from t....
-- get total records Declare @TotalCount as int select @TotalCount = count(AUTOID_TEMP) from #t7e07c01fa80143ff84cb14a2307809f7
Now the above last statement does a index scan. I am new to indexing/tuning and was wondering if its normal - if so why and can I somehow enhance this?
I have a procedure that runs everyday which takes the IIS log file from the previous day and imports it and calcs values. I would like to change this from taking the previous day to scanning all the file names in the folder and comparing them to a database to see if they have already been scanned before. I already have a table called DatesScanned which lists the filename and scandate.
Hi,Can someone please explain the following1. Meaning of scan count as reported when "statistics io" is turned onprior to running a query.2. In which situations could you have an identical database runningon two diferent servers , with identical database serverconfigurations, running identical queries, with identical query plan,report large discrepency in the scan count . This is one of thepossibilities we are looking at in terms of the reason why one serverruns the job in 12 hours and the other in 24 hours.Server 1--------Table 'TRANS_HISTORY'. Scan count 216, logical reads 897093, physicalreads 44, read-ahead reads 900599.SQL Server Execution Times:CPU time = 27766 ms, elapsed time = 46850 ms.UNIT_NUMBERACCOUNT_TYPETRANSACTION_TYPEServer 2--------Table 'TRANS_HISTORY'. Scan count 491, logical reads 952759, physicalreads 51, read-ahead reads 954414.SQL Server Execution Times:CPU time = 31563 ms, elapsed time = 145595 ms.UNIT_NUMBERACCOUNT_TYPETRANSACTION_TYPEI thank you in advance for your assistance.Puvendran
I do not understand it but by connection to my database seems to keep crapping out. I get the below error and my app appears to be unable to access the connection. Then a couple restarts later it tells me that my login under my Windows User failed . The database is there and besides maybe a couple records longer there isnt anything corrupt about the data, and in fact, if I restart the entire PC most times it will allow me to connect again. I can even still access the data tables through the C# editor. Any idea why this error is being thrown?
Thx
Code SnippetSystem.Data.SqlClient.SqlException was unhandled Message="A system assertion check has failed. Check the SQL Server error log for details The log scan number (35:460:2) passed to log scan in database 'F:\PDLOGSHEET\PDLOGSHEET\BIN\DEBUG\DATABASE1.MDF' is not valid. This error may indicate data corruption or that the log file (.ldf) does not match the data file (.mdf). If this error occurred during replication, re-create the publication. Otherwise, restore from backup if the problem results in a failure during startup. An error occurred during recovery, preventing the database 'F:\PDLOGSHEET\PDLOGSHEET\BIN\DEBUG\DATABASE1.MDF' (database ID 26) from restarting. Diagnose the recovery errors and fix them, or restore from a known good backup. If errors are not corrected or expected, contact Technical Support. Cannot open user default database. Login failed. Login failed for user 'GC\cbcottier'. Location: logscan.cpp:1925Expression: UtilDbccIsInsideDbcc ()SPID: 51Process ID: 3640 Location: logscan.cpp:1925Expression: UtilDbccIsInsideDbcc ()SPID: 51Process ID: 3640" Source=".Net SqlClient Data Provider" ErrorCode=-2146232060 Class=20 LineNumber=65536 Number=3624 Procedure="" Server="\\.\pipe\E74940B1-0BD7-42\tsql\query" State=1 StackTrace: at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.GetConnection(DbConnection owningObject) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open() at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.FillInternal(DataSet dataset, DataTable[] datatables, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior) at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataTable[] dataTables, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior) at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataTable dataTable) at PDLogSheet.Database1DataSetTableAdapters.ReportTitlesTableAdapter.Fill(ReportTitlesDataTable dataTable) in F:PDLogSheetPDLogSheetDatabase1DataSet.Designer.cs:line 4362 at PDLogSheet.frmLogSheet.frmLogSheet_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in F:PDLogSheetPDLogSheetfrmLogSheet.cs:line 42 at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DebuggableCallback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) at System.Windows.Forms.SafeNativeMethods.ShowWindow(HandleRef hWnd, Int32 nCmdShow) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.SetVisibleCore(Boolean value) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.SetVisibleCore(Boolean value) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_Visible(Boolean value) at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoopInner(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context) at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoop(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context) at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form mainForm) at PDLogSheet.Program.Main() in F:PDLogSheetPDLogSheetProgram.cs:line 17 at System.AppDomain.nExecuteAssembly(Assembly assembly, String[] args) at System.Runtime.Hosting.ManifestRunner.Run(Boolean checkAptModel) at System.Runtime.Hosting.ManifestRunner.ExecuteAsAssembly() at System.Runtime.Hosting.ApplicationActivator.CreateInstance(ActivationContext activationContext, String[] activationCustomData) at System.Runtime.Hosting.ApplicationActivator.CreateInstance(ActivationContext activationContext) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.HostingProcess.HostProc.RunUsersAssemblyDebugInZone() at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
When an end user view a report using report manager or a custom build web site, would query of the report scan the tables in original data base? In this case it is a OLTP data base.
I have created a nolock view off a table to prevent locks. I have users coming in through MS Access that have switched their queries to run against the views. Now we are noticing that queries that used to run as a clustered index seek against the table are running as a clustered index scan against the table and performance in the queries has dropped.
Is there any way that the same query that hits the view instead of the table can be made to run faster or at least use the index seek?
I am running a SELECT on a table. This READ operation ends up going through Clustered Index Scan. I want to know whether Clustered Index Scan , blocks other concurrent transactions trying to INSERT into this table? Does Clustered Index Scan locks the entire clustered index?
I have a table with 50% Logical Scan Fragmentation. [ according to Dbcc Showcontig (myTable) ] Why after running DBCC INDEXDEFRAG (myDB,myTable) does it still sit at 50%. Why isn't it lower?
Hi all, I have a scanner that dump the images into a directory. Because of thousand images dump per day, I want to moved the images into another directory each day as nightly schedule. However I like the path of the images moved stored into the database, to retrieve later. Have anyone design something like this? Right now, I get the file name from the text files, import to the database and update the path directory. I was hoping to get away from this...and do this as a jobs.
Can anyone let me now why the extent scan fragmentation is very high. I do have a clustered index on this table . The fill factor is 0 and this table has high inserts as it is used to maintain history. Rebuilding the Indexes did not help.
DBCC SHOWCONTIG scanning 'ACCOUNTS' table... Table: 'ACCOUNTS'(1061578820); index ID: 1, database ID: 5 TABLE level scan performed. - Pages Scanned................................: 728157 - Extents Scanned..............................: 91759 - Extent Switches..............................: 93305 - Avg. Pages per Extent........................: 7.9 - Scan Density .......: 97.55% [91020:93306] - Logical Scan Fragmentation ..................: 0.33% - Extent Scan Fragmentation ...................: 99.99% - Avg. Bytes Free per Page.....................: 76.6 - Avg. Page Density (full).....................: 99.05% DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator
Thanks in advance, Shades[B]Extent Scan Fragmentation
A few days after droping and recreating noclustered indexes on a large table, scan density of most indexes falls below 20%. Only a few number of rows has deleted. Update operation didn't update these keys and there was a lot of inserts. Could anyone explain why are indexes fragmented so much?