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Dropping and recreating indexes

I most often come in a situation where the users move there database from one server to another and immediately after they move they face performance problems(slowness). I somehow manage to rebuild ...
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How do I use subquery on the same table in MySQL?

I have a query like this which takes a really long time to run. The table is around 4 million rows. DELETE FROM TABLE WHERE value_was IS NULL OR value_was <= value_now; I'm hoping I could ...
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How can I improve this query?

About a year back I introduced a query which returns a sort of "Customers Also Purchased" data-set. At the time it ran reasonably fast however, as of late it's become very slow, sometimes taking up to ...
2
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2answers
103 views

Is there a difference in performance between @date and getdate()?

Usually I use the getdate() function in my where clauses to go back in time. Something like: DOC.DATUM >= DATEADD(DD,-1*SSN_SDO.DANA_ZA_POVRAT,GETDATE()) Will SQL Server 2008R2 perform faster ...
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1answer
80 views

Could too many idle connections affect PostgreSQL 9.2 performance?

Some queries on my database server seem to take a long time to respond, and I believe the CPU usage is high. When running ps aux, I see ~250 "idle" connections (which I believe to be too many). I ...
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Landed as BI, but databases are a big WTF, what to do?

Maybe a duplicate, but I believe my case is a bit different. From one of the answers I got to this post on SQL Server Central that also comes handy too but is not quite the same scenario: 9 Things to ...
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How can one improve the performance of a query that selects on a low cardinality column in MySQL?

I have a "State" column that has a low cardinality (three possible value), on which most of my queries perform an equality selection (WHERE col = 'blah') AFAIK you need something like a bitmap index ...
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1answer
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Mysql. Block/disconnect slow queries

I am experiencing issue. Someone 'attacked' my server: simply by searching the same phrase with multiple requests. As it is text search request and database indices are not used, the engine searches ...
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Why would I NOT use the SQL Server option “optimize for ad hoc workloads”?

I've been reading some great articles regarding SQL Server plan caching by Kimberly Tripp such as this one: http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/plan-cache-and-optimizing-for-adhoc-workloads/ Why ...
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0answers
138 views

MySQL: Improve performance for one row insert into table with unique constraint

I have a table with ~ 40 mil records, with a unique index on the url collumn, of type varchar(255). Now the insert speed is about 30/s, is this expected? how could I improve it? I can't use bulk ...
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SQL Database Structure for RESTful API

I am creating a RESTful API. I am struggling to decide on the best way to design my database tables around my resources. Initially, I though a table per resource would be a good way to go, but I'm ...
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Optimisation sub query SQL Server

I would like to optimise the query below because it's actually taking 40% of the time in the real one. I HAVE to get the first line in the table 2 for each line in the table 1. The relationship is 1 ...
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How To Analyse Index Scans

I am using merge replication with SQL Server 2012. During a sync using a merge agent there are a large number of index scans. I can see this by running a profile capturing SCAN:Started and ...
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1answer
96 views

What would be a optimal index for this query in mysql

I'm trying to optimize this query. SELECT * FROM sales_reps WHERE account_id = 1 AND (state = 'enabled') AND (clients >= 5 OR revenue >= 10000) ORDER BY name, platform, client_group, ...
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264 views

Why does the query cost change so much and how to prevent it

The query causing me the issue is too big, but the piece that seems to be the core is quite simple, I will try to go with that: The query has an structure like: SELECT ... a lot of stuff ... ...
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1answer
120 views

How should we handle rows which won't be queried once they are old in PostgreSQL?

We have a table in a PostgreSQL database which is growing on the order of millions of rows per day. Each row consists of: ID Foreign user ID Date and time Other data The date and time aren't ...
3
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2answers
315 views

Help to understand explain plan in Oracle

I am running a query in some big tables, and although it runs fine even tough is a lot of data, I'd like to understand what part of it weighs on the execution. Unfortunately I am not too good with ...
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1answer
293 views

Should I use left join to do my job in this scenario?

What I want to do is to find out the items which appeared more than once in this table: mysql> desc tables; +-----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field ...
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Is it possible to increase query performance on a narrow table with millions of rows?

I have a query that is currently taking an average of 2500ms to complete. My table is very narrow, but there are 44 million rows. What options do I have to improve performance, or is this as good as ...
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385 views

Improve performance of a Fact Table

I have a Fact table CardTransactionFact Table Structure TABLE [dbo].[CardTransactionFact] [CardTransactionID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [TransactionTerminalID] [int] NOT NULL, ...
2
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1answer
162 views

Why are my queries getting really slow?

I own a WordPress installation, and Updated to 3.4.1. After the upgrade, I experienced a very strange slow-down. After all, I used the define('SAVEQUERIES', true); in my wp-config.php with ...
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Resource to learn writing most efficient and highly optimized sql queries [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Learning to Optimize SQL Queries and Understand Execution Plans - Resources? Can some one point me to a great book/great books or some really solid reference/references ...
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1answer
212 views

Slow performance of MySQL Join Query

I have inherited a site (running Coldfusion8 and MySQL 5.0.88) with a product search using multiple criteria. I'm struggling with optimizing the search, especially a pricelist check, which makes the ...
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Slow Performance Inserting Few Rows Into Huge Table

We have a process that takes data from stores and updates a company-wide inventory table. This table has rows for every store by date and by item. At customers with many stores, this table can get ...
4
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3answers
346 views

Some book suggestions for performance tuning

I am in the process of improving performance on our database application. While I am not a DBA, I am pretty comfortable with SQL. I am after a book that can help me understand how queries written in ...
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What is retrieved from disk during a query?

Fairly simple question, probably answered somewhere, but I can't seem to form the right search question for Google... Do the number of columns in a particular table affect the performance of a query, ...
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342 views

Performance degradation while updating tables having 10s of millions of records

I want to update tables ( my be 20-30 ) having 10s of millions of records each. The problem is that it is taking too much time for the update process and also at that time CPU usage also goes very ...
2
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2answers
1k views

Will altering order of columns in GROUP BY affect performance?

I have a SQL query like this: SELECT A, B, (CASE WHEN C=0 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END), COUNT(D) FROM SomeTable GROUP BY A, B, (CASE WHEN C=0 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END) On a huge dataset the actual execution plan ...
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2answers
137 views

How do I count rows with two properties in one index scan in SQL?

I have a table Units where I have rows ItemId, ItemCreationDate, ItemUnitsCount. ItemId is a primary key and I have a clustered index over it. I need to output the following: for each day I need to ...
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3answers
413 views

Single query sending and retreiving duplicate data on MS SQL Server?

Very odd thing happening. It would appear that all queries against a particular database in our system are periodically "running slow". Ie "normal speed" for 5 minutes then slow for 5 minutes ...
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Checking if the query is made async or sync on SQL Server 2008 R2

I have tried to make async calls to my SQL Server instance as you may see on my SO post: ASP.NET MVC 4 asyncronous database call: never returns the HTTP response I did a benchmarking and the sync ...
3
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1answer
2k views

mySQL query optimisation — multiple joins or select … where not in (select distinct…)?

Background I have a Drupal install accessing a large users database (~200k rows) and my "People finder" functionality needs to access all those rows (in a random order). I don't seem to be able to ...
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1answer
135 views

Oracle ash report

Recently, i have been handed over with an ash report from DBA. To me this report is like french. I have no idea what it is about and what all is written in this report. Can someone please guide me in ...
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117 views

Improving MySQL efficiency

I have a table now containing over 43 million records. To execute SELECT, I usually select records with the same field, say A. Will it be more efficient to divide the table into several tables by ...
3
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1answer
246 views

Can you have a WHERE clause with a greater than operator on a composite key?

I'm a web developer (not DB admin!) having performance problems processing a 1.7m record table on MySQL. Here is that table : CREATE TABLE `bbcmapimp_pc_raw` ( `postcode` char(8) NOT NULL, ...
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2answers
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MySql - How can I speed up this query

I have the following tables: CREATE TABLE `users` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `first_name` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL, `last_name` varchar(255) COLLATE ...