SQL taking a long time

  • We have a client who is complaining about really slow response time during a process. There is a table that is updated during the process that takes 45 seconds to update. I'm not sure if it is the culprit but this is what I know.

    1) When I go in to Query Analyzer and perform a select count(*) on that table, it takes 29 seconds to return.

    2) If I run the query again immediately after, it is faster and gets faster every time.

    3) There are about 70,000 rows in that table.

    4) I ran this on the table yesterday which didn't help:

    update statistics my_table with fullscan

    exec sp_recompile my_table

    5) The table has about 140 columns.

    6) There are 5 columns that are not null.

    7) There is an index using these 5 columns and these values are checked: clustered index, unique values, filegroup - primary, fill factor -90.

    If I perform some re-index, how can I test it to see if it worked? Like I mentioned, Sometimes the query takes a long time and sometimes it doesn't - maybe the server has the query plan in memory. How can I remove it?

    What can I do?

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