7
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4answers
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Index Seek vs Index Scan

Looking at an execution plan of a slow running query and I noticed that some of the nodes are index seek and some of them are index scan. What is the difference between and index seek and an index ...
2
votes
1answer
126 views

How do you figure out what planner cost constants to use in Postgres?

I'm using Postgres 8.4 right now. Performance has started to become an issue as our tables have grown in size and our queries in complexity, so I've started to look into some performance tuning, but I ...
4
votes
2answers
587 views

How do I get the execution plan for a view?

I have a schema with a number of views. I need to check the execution plans to make sure the appropriate indexes are in place and being used. How do I do this? I'd rather not have to copy and paste ...
1
vote
3answers
950 views

Why would recompile query hint result in different plan for same adhoc statement after freeproccache?

This is on SQL 2005 SP2, but I suspect this is something that applies to all query hints in general. I've got an adhoc sql statement that gets a different query plan solely because of ...
2
votes
2answers
408 views

Clustered monotonically increased index insert performance

I have a table with field Id (bigint, IDENTITY) as primary key and clustered index on it. I inserted 400 rows and saw execution plan. I got: the relative query cost for this insertion 36% and for this ...
4
votes
1answer
304 views

how to improve performance by using or not using table variables

I have a table variable: DECLARE @to_process TABLE ( [Id] [bigint] NOT NULL, [SequenceId] [bigint] NOT NULL, ... ) INSERT INTO @to_process ( Id , SequenceId ... ) SELECT ...