Troubleshooting help for long-running query

  • We have a complex query that is causing problems, pegging the CPU on our development server. On my localhost i run the query in Management Studio, and it runs in 25 seconds. Connecting to the dev box and running the same query takes over 4 minutes to run.

    My local machine looks like:

    Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2

    Intel CPU, 2.00 GHz

    2 GB of RAM

    SQL Server 2005

    The dev box looks like:

    Windows Server 2003, Service Pack 2

    AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ 2.41 GHz

    2 GB of RAM

    SQL Server 2005

    On my local machine, SQL Server is using ~500MB of RAM, and on the dev box it's using ~1.4GB. There isn't much else that's happening on the dev box, it's a dedicated server.

    Can someone provide a little guidance for what i can do to troubleshoot this and figure out why the performance is so bad on the dev box?

    Thanks for your time.

  • Hi,

    check the following:

    - are both databases the same size?

    - check the two query plans. Are they the same?

    - are other queries running in development machine?

    Good luck

    PSA

  • Also check:

    - SQL version (equal ?)

    - physical drive design, location of datafiles/logfiles

    - statistics

    - index fragmentation

    Wilfred
    The best things in life are the simple things

  • Hi

    Is both the SQL servers are 32 bit?? if the server one is 64 bit try to set max memory for SQL server

    Cheers

    🙂

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