Optimizing SQL queries

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Optimizing SQL queries

Imke Cronje

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December 17, 2010 at 1:11 am

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Hi All,
I am sitting with a situation where I have a table that is 27 MB in size and a query that runs against it that possibly needs to be optimized. The query takes less than a sec to bring back the data however I have run that estimated execution plan and it shows that in the query there is a Clustered Index Scan of 74%. See query below.
SELECT
*,
table2.column1 AS <columnname>
FROM
table1
LEFT OUTER JOIN table2
ON
table1.columnn2 = table2.column2
JOIN [PARAMETER]
ON
[PARAMETER] = 'ColumnData'
AND column3> (GETDATE() - CAST(PARAMETERVALUE AS INT))
AND column4 = 'columndata'
WHERE
table1.column2 = 5000
ORDER BY
column3 DESC
The number of records that is returned amounts to 100. The is a clustered index on the primary key. I have added an non-clustered index to table1.column2. The query plan is still showing that a clustered index scan is at 75% cost. Can anyone please assist. Does this query need to be optimized any further?
Regards
IC

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

Please post table definitions, index definitions and execution plan, as per http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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Imke Cronje SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4826 More actions · Answer 2

I can't post that information:

See statistics results:

Table 'Table1'. Scan count 1, logical reads 3512, physical reads 3, read-ahead reads 3508, lob logical reads 0, lob physical reads 0, lob read-ahead reads 0.

Table 'table2'. Scan count 0, logical reads 2, physical reads 2, read-ahead reads 0, lob logical reads 0, lob physical reads 0, lob read-ahead reads 0.

SQL Server Execution Times:

CPU time = 47 ms, elapsed time = 39 ms.

Imke Cronje SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4826 More actions · Answer 3

Hi All,

I create the missing index as the estimated query plan suggested which improves statistics on the query.

Thanks!!

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 4

Imke Cronje (12/17/2010)
I can't post that information:

It's very hard (near impossible) to provide correct advice on performance problems without seeing what I asked for. Without knowing what the table looks like and what indexes are already there, any suggestions can be completely wrong.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass