Writing Faster T-SQL

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Writing Faster T-SQL

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Saurabh Dwivedy SSCommitted Points: 1887 More actions · Answer 1

That's surprising! Is there a way to verify this? I always thought that the entire Select Statement is executed atomically - meaning all at once. This seems to suggest that the engine would execute the first getdate and then the other getdate as if there were two selects getting executed.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004151 More actions · Answer 2

Lynn Pettis (11/21/2009)
Jeff Moden (11/21/2009)
Understanding is the key... thanks, Saurabh. :blush:
Actually, Jeff, in a query such as this:
select getdate(), getdate();
the getdate() function is actually called twice. Found this out during the duscussion regarding bitbuckets QotD a few days ago.

Heh.... although I can see someone taking what I said that way because I left out the words "each instance of", I agree. It's just the same way that more than one instance of the RAND would work except that more than one instance of GETDATE() in the same query has a very, very high probability of having the same value.

SELECT TOP 100

RAND() AS UnseededRAND1,

RAND() AS UnseededRAND2,

GETDATE() AS Date1,

GETDATE() AS Date2

FROM Master.sys.All_Columns ac1

CROSS JOIN Master.sys.All_Columns ac2

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 3

And it also depends on how the query is written as well. A straight SELECT query from a Tally table for instance all the values were the same for 100,000 records. However, I was also using a query with a cross join, and there when I hit 100,000 records the values differed by 3 milliseconds. I just can't find the query I used during that discussion. Chances are if I saved it, it was at work, not here at home.