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October 1, 2013 at 8:14 am

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Hello. I ran the following script that too 3 hours 25 minutes to insert about 40,000 rows. Is there any logic that I can put into this to speed it up? Thank you!
insert into T3
select T2.COL1, T2.COL2, T1.COL1, T1.COL2, T1.COL3
from T1
join T2 on T1.COL4 = T2.COL3
where T2.COL4 != 'data1'
and T1.COL1 is not NULL
and T1.COL5 is not NULL
and T1.COL6 = 'data2'
and CAST (T2.COL1 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(T2.COL2 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(T1.COL1 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(T1.COL2 as VARCHAR) not in
(select CAST(COL1 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(COL2 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(COL3 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(COL4 as VARCHAR) from T3)

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SrcName Default port Points: 1460 More actions · Answer 1

there are many causes for performance. but it's good to post little bit more details about this.

Like, do you have created index on some column if yes which type, do you use somewhere have transaction where this tables is used,

i don't know, try this

select T2.COL1, T2.COL2, T1.COL1, T1.COL2, T1.COL3,

CAST(T2.COL1 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(T2.COL2 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(T1.COL1 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(T1.COL2 as VARCHAR) tmpColumn into #temp

from T1 (nolock) join T2 (nolock) on T1.COL4 = T2.COL3

where T2.COL4 != 'data1'

and T1.COL1 is not NULL

and T1.COL5 is not NULL

and T1.COL6 = 'data2'

insert into T3

select * from #temp where tmpColumn not in

(select CAST(COL1 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(COL2 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(COL3 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(COL4 as VARCHAR) from T3)

Keith Tate SSCrazy Eights Points: 9938 More actions · Answer 2

There isn't a lot to go on here. If you could share some more information like: How large are the tables in question (both size and number of rows)? Are there indexes that cover this query? What does the Execution Plan show? Did this used to run fast and now it is slow? Is this an ad-hoc query or part of a stored procedure? etc.

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homebrew01 SSC Guru Points: 55548 More actions · Answer 3

And some examples of actual data in the tables, along with the CREATE TABLE code..

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easy_goer (10/1/2013)
Hello. I ran the following script that too 3 hours 25 minutes to insert about 40,000 rows. Is there any logic that I can put into this to speed it up? Thank you!
insert into T3
select T2.COL1, T2.COL2, T1.COL1, T1.COL2, T1.COL3
from T1
join T2 on T1.COL4 = T2.COL3
where T2.COL4 != 'data1'
and T1.COL1 is not NULL
and T1.COL5 is not NULL
and T1.COL6 = 'data2'
and CAST (T2.COL1 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(T2.COL2 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(T1.COL1 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(T1.COL2 as VARCHAR) not in
(select CAST(COL1 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(COL2 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(COL3 as VARCHAR)+'-'+CAST(COL4 as VARCHAR) from T3)

We can't really help performance issues on theoretical tables. I can say that your performance issues are all based in your where clause. You have lots of nonSARGable predicates here.

!= will force a full scan.

Also you cast all these columns to varchar. You didn't specify a length so it will use the default length. Do you know the default length for varchar? Me neither, that is why you should always specify the length.

If you want some real assistance with the performance issues you should take a look at this article.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/[/url]

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 5

This I reckon is the correct way to write your query:

select T2.COL1, T2.COL2, T1.COL1, T1.COL2, T1.COL3

from T1

join T2

on T1.COL4 = T2.COL3

where T2.COL4 != 'data1'

and T1.COL1 is not NULL

and T1.COL5 is not NULL

and T1.COL6 = 'data2'

AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM T3

WHERE T3.COL1 = T2.COL1

AND T3.COL2 = T2.COL2

AND T3.COL3 = T1.COL1

AND T3.COL4 = T1.COL2)

Check the results against the SELECT part of your original.

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October 2, 2013 at 10:13 pm

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Worked like a charm. Thanks for the assistance!

homebrew01 SSC Guru Points: 55548 More actions · Answer 7

Chris, is this the equivalent of a LEFT JOIN based on 4 columns ?

AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM T3

WHERE T3.COL1 = T2.COL1

AND T3.COL2 = T2.COL2

AND T3.COL3 = T1.COL1

AND T3.COL4 = T1.COL2)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004340 More actions · Answer 8

homebrew01 (10/5/2013)
Chris, is this the equivalent of a LEFT JOIN based on 4 columns ?
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM T3
WHERE T3.COL1 = T2.COL1
AND T3.COL2 = T2.COL2
AND T3.COL3 = T1.COL1
AND T3.COL4 = T1.COL2)

Yeh... but faster.

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ChrisM@Work (10/1/2013)
This I reckon is the correct way to write your query:
select T2.COL1, T2.COL2, T1.COL1, T1.COL2, T1.COL3
from T1
join T2
on T1.COL4 = T2.COL3
where T2.COL4 != 'data1'
and T1.COL1 is not NULL
and T1.COL5 is not NULL
and T1.COL6 = 'data2'
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM T3
WHERE T3.COL1 = T2.COL1
AND T3.COL2 = T2.COL2
AND T3.COL3 = T1.COL1
AND T3.COL4 = T1.COL2)
Check the results against the SELECT part of your original.

So in this case, it will select from T1 and T2, only if not in T3 ?

What if you want to include non-matches against T3 ? Would you add to the WHERE clause ?

and T3.COL1 is NULL

and T3.COL2 is NULL

and T3.COL3 is NULL

and T3.COL4 is NULL

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004340 More actions · Answer 10

homebrew01 (10/6/2013)
What if you want to include non-matches against T3 ? Would you add to the WHERE clause ?
and T3.COL1 is NULL
and T3.COL2 is NULL
and T3.COL3 is NULL
and T3.COL4 is NULL

I guess it depends on what you are actually trying to do but if any of the t3 columns are NULL, they won't match any of the t2 columns even if they are also NULL so the result is that the rows won't exist and the WHERE NOT EXISTS will still work.