Update Statement - conditional

• Mahesh Bote

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  October 7, 2015 at 3:17 am

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  [font="Verdana"]Hi All,

  I have a situation. I have one conditional UPDATE statement in stored procedure which updates one column based on other columns in same row. To fulfill the required we have written one function which accepts other columns and returns the value which get updated against the expected column. The problem here is, the whole update is taking too much time to execute. We are checking the optimization possibilities however we have not got any idea.

  Can anyone suggest me, what other remedies can be applied to tune the UPDATE statement?

  Thanks in advance,

  -- Mahesh[/font]

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• ChrisM@Work

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  October 7, 2015 at 3:20 am

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  Mahesh Bote (10/7/2015)

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  [font="Verdana"]Hi All,

  I have a situation. I have one conditional UPDATE statement in stored procedure which updates one column based on other columns in same row. To fulfill the required we have written one function which accepts other columns and returns the value which get updated against the expected column. The problem here is, the whole update is taking too much time to execute. We are checking the optimization possibilities however we have not got any idea.

  Can anyone suggest me, what other remedies can be applied to tune the UPDATE statement?

  Thanks in advance,

  -- Mahesh[/font]

  Can you post the actual execution plan please? Without it, folks will be guessing.

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• Grant Fritchey

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  October 7, 2015 at 6:38 am

  #1831972

  Absolute agreement with Chris. We'd need to see the query, the function and the execution plan to make an assessment.

  If it's a multi-statement, table-valued, user-defined function, that's problematic right there.

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