Replacing Index Scan with Index Seek

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Replacing Index Scan with Index Seek

Little Nick

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January 17, 2012 at 11:36 am

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I've table as following,
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[myTbl1](
[idx] [int] IDENTITY(-2147483648,1) NOT NULL,
[myID] [varchar](50) NULL,
[nme] [varchar](50) NULL,
[addr1] [varchar](200) NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_myTbl1] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[idx] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
My data as following,
insert into myTbl1 values('500','shaiful','addr1')
insert into myTbl1 values('500','shaiful','addr1')
insert into myTbl1 values('500','shaiful','addr1')
insert into myTbl1 values('500','shaiful','addr1')
insert into myTbl1 values('600','rudie','addr1')
insert into myTbl1 values('600','rudie','addr1')
insert into myTbl1 values('600','rudie','addr1')
insert into myTbl1 values('600','rudie','addr1')
insert into myTbl1 values('700','karim','street1')
insert into myTbl1 values('700','karim','street1')
insert into myTbl1 values('700','karim','street1')
insert into myTbl1 values('700','karim','street1')
/*and so on*/
My indexes as following,
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_01] ON [dbo].[myTbl1]
(
[myID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
My execution plan have
1. Stream Aggregate
2. Index Scan (NonClustered)
My question is 'How to replace this Index Scan with Index Seek?'

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

I've probably missed something, but I see table, indexes, data, but I don't see a query.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 2

A query would be nice. An exec plan would be excellent.;-)

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398821 More actions · Answer 3

Nope, no query that I saw either.

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Little Nick SSCrazy Points: 2202 More actions · Answer 4

Oh sorry. My SQL as following,

select distinct nme from myTbl1 where addr1 like '%a%'

Correction,

My execution plan have

1. Hash Match

2. Clustered Index Scan (Clustured)

My question is 'How to replace this Index Scan with Index Seek?'

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

Short answer, you can't.

That LIKE has a leading wildcard, it's a non-SARGable predicate and the only way that can execute is with a scan, table or index. (imagine a telephone directory, it's 'indexed' by surname. find me everyone who has 'reke' anywhere in their surname.)

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Little Nick SSCrazy Points: 2202 More actions · Answer 6

Little Nick

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January 18, 2012 at 6:32 am

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Oh. tq gail