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Correct use of VOLATILE COST (and ROWS) indications in Postgresql stored procedure

While looking at several examples of pl/python and pl/pgsql, I have seen many - but not all - using volatile cost. ie: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_function() RETURNS setof record AS $BODY$ -- ...
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MySQL: how to optimize the stored procedure?

MySQL 5.5.28 Running pt-query-digest on a slow query log, I get something like this: # 1.2s user time, 10ms system time, 22.30M rss, 114.48M vsz # Current date: Wed Oct 24 23:44:05 2012 # ...
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How to know what to investigate and how for a VERY slow stored procedure

I have inherited a large and slow stored procedure and it's giving me a nightmare: I'm not a DBA, although I have some knowledge, but I don't know where to start to identify this bottleneck. I have ...
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can sql generate a good plan for this procedure?

I have read that procs that do not always do the same thing per se, will not always have a good plan generated. That is (correct me if I'm wrong), if I have a proc that if the day is even it reads ...
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Suddenly Slow Execution Plan for Stored Proc

I'm trying to understand an issue we're having with SQL Server 2000. We are a moderately transactional website and we have a stored proc called sp_GetCurrentTransactions which accepts a customerID, ...
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How to optimize this dynamic stored procedure

I have a stored procedure which is retrieving data using 20 tables. Sample of the procedure: CREATE PROCEDURE GetEnquiries ( @EnquiryDate DATETIME = NULL ) AS ...
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Optimization: Moving variable declarations to the top of your procedure

While working on optimizing some stored procedures, I sat down with the DBA and went through some sprocs with high blocking and/or high read/write activity. One thing the DBA mentioned was I should ...
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Does SQL server optimize or pre-parse stored procedures?

Despite what DBAs will tell you ("use stored procedures because the server will optimize them thus they are faster than ad-hoc queries"), I have heard that SQL server does not actually optimize stored ...
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Fetch first 9 records and make one more record which will be as “Others” in MySQL

I am fetching records from one table with count of one field with other field as name. I want only 10 records. out of which 9 records give me field and its count. but i want to show 10 record as ...