Questions tagged [index-tuning]
The process of determining which indexes are useful and which are not.
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Azure SQL Server - Cannot get rid of the sort operator
I'm using Azure SQL Server (Microsoft SQL Azure (RTM) - 12.0.2000.8 Apr 3 2019 13:27:00 Copyright (C) 2019 Microsoft Corporation), Premium tier 4 (500 DTUs).
Query: offer progress has a history ...
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Why does sql server prefer the nonclustered index over the clustered index?
I am trying to speed up a table and as I was experimenting I ran into this (what I think is) odd occurrence. I created a clustered index and a nonclustered index that should be the same thing. However,...
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Spatial index unused on nested set
I'm using the nested set architecture to store URL hierarchies in the following InnoDB table on MySQL 5.7. From my research, I've learnt that using a SPATIAL index will significantly speed up any ...
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How to index/optimize sum of two columns in PostgreSQL?
We have a database where one table contains serialized temporary data that needs to be kept for various times (usually between tens of minutes and two weeks). We also have a low priority background ...
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What is the best practice when an index with key/include columns are inversed for a second index on the same table
I have an index on a table of the form:
NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IDX1] ON [TABLE]
(
[COL_ID_A] ASC
)
INCLUDE
(
[COL_ID_B]
)
For a different query on the same table MSSMS proposes the following ...
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How to optimize the execution of query that takes too long
I am working with a query that is taking around 53 minutes to execute, which I feel is excessive.
Maria DB version: Server version: 10.1.38-MariaDB-1~stretch mariadb.org
The declaration of the ...
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Is MongoDB index creation single threaded?
I have rather big dataset - 2TB of text data, 18.000 millions of lines.
Each document is same: 5 fields: 4 strings + 1 integer.
All fields should be indexed and searched by.
That is: array of 3 ...
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Background index creation resource provisioning
I have a long running background index creation running in MongoDB. However, the CPU and RAM usage is below 30%.
Is there a way to allocate more resources to the index creation process or is it ...
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Optimizer choosing a bad index
I have a pretty simple select statement,
select column 4 from table_x where column1=:1 and column2=:2 and column3=:3
Columns 1,2 and 3 make up the primary key on the table.
For some reason, ...
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Query Index question
I am trying to figure out how I can index this query below. The table is 155 columns. It has a clustered index on the column which is not in the query. The query is dynamically created from out of the ...
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Identify proper index for group and order by date and hour (2 columns)
PostgreSQL 10.4
I have a table that has already an index on date column. Current query plan is doing a Bitmap Heap Scan using the existing date index. I would like to add a new index for this query, ...
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Is PRIMARY(ColumnA, ColumnB) + INDEX(ColumnB) + PARTITIONING(ColumnB) redundant?
I have a big table (30 millions rows) defined like this:
CREATE TABLE `drawing` (
`id` int unsigned NOT NULL,
`artist` int unsigned NOT NULL,
`imageUrl` text NOT NULL,
`uploadDate` timestamp NOT ...
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Index Optimization for Datetime comparing day of week and hour
I have a table of sensor observations with obs_ts timestamp, sensor_id text, sensor_val int, and to fill in gaps with data we have models by day of week and hour of day: model_id int, hour_of_day int, ...
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What is the best index strategy or query SELECT when performing a search/lookup BETWEEN IP address (IPv4 and IPv6) ranges?
Question: Is there a better indexing strategy or query SELECT that I can use for looking up one large data set against another large data set? Or, should I look at placing the lookup dimension table ...
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Why are partial PostgreSQL HASH indices not smaller than full indices?
I want to create the most efficient index for a sparsely populated column. I only need equality operations, so a HASH index should be beneficial.
Now I'm wondering why a partial HASH index isn't ...
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Redundant indexes in SQL Server
I am currently going through all indexes in our data warehouse as a performance tuning exercise. Several of these indexes are not used in the system stats, and I am considering removing them to reduce ...
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Advice on fine-tuning query and index for performance
Currently my query is as below:
select id_request,username_request
from darkhast_follower
where darkhast_follower.id_request != '9762952594'
AND darkhast_follower.status =0
AND NOT exists (...
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Queries key look up [closed]
SELECT Col1, Col2, Col3, Col4, Col5, Col6, Col25...
FROM Tabl1
WHERE ( Col30 IS NOT NULL
AND Col28 <> @P0
AND DATEDIFF(
dd,
Col31,
...
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PostgreSQL: hstore trgm search on fixed key
I have a table of products with custom properties for each product. So I have props::hstore column in my table. I want the user to be able to search products by key/value by first selecting the key ...
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Slow query with order by join table
I have a SQL with multiple join left, because some data is empty.
However, I need to sort the data using a string column from a join table.
I thought about creating an index for this table, but this ...
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Struggling to create an efficient index for this query
I am struggling to create an index for a query and unfortunately I cannot change the query at all as it part of an ERP system. The problem is this query has over 1m reads and sometimes a duration of ...
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Index help for bad Query on fairly big table (2m)
I am looking for some assistance please. I have a query that is running against a fairly big table (2 million records).
I have been trying to get the indexes working efficiently. There are a few ...
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SQL Server indexes Work Sometimes [duplicate]
So I have the following indexes on my table:
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [$5] ON [dbo].[Record Link]
(
[Company] ASC,
[Record ID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, ...
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Performance recommendations stuck on 'Validating'
I have been tasked with migrating a 'database from hell' to Azure SQL. It has some complicated and long-running queries (20 seconds on the S6 tier, >600 seconds on S4 tier) and I'd like to optimise ...
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Enlighten me about INCLUDE on indexes
Well, After reading Erik Darling's post Filtered Indexes: Just Add Includes I'm really curious and sad about how I use INCLUDES:
He gives some examples and etc. about INCLUDE, but I'm confused about ...
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Why are bulk multi-column key queries so slow in MySQL?
(For this question, I am using AWS/Aurora MySQL with a reasonably-spec'd RDS instance)
Consider the following schema:
Table T:
col0: the usual autoincrement primary key
col1: varchar
...
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Creating index on a big text column in postgres
We are talking about postgresql 9.5 on windows with a database which has UTF8 encoding and "English_United States.1252" (default) LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE.
The column is of type text and it is used ...
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PostgreSQL performance with (col = value or col is NULL)
This question deals with PostgreSQL 9.5 query performance.
The table is:
CREATE TABLE big_table
(
id integer NOT NULL,
flag bigint NOT NULL,
time timestamp with timezone NOT NULL,
val ...
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Composite index and Normal index,redundant/duplicate index - Incurred Performance penalty [closed]
Need suggestion on below indexes, whether our composite index is enough and can the normal index be removed.
Scenario - We have ix4 and ix6 indexes as below, please review and advise if ix4 is ...
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Is there any benefit to having both an ordered and unordered index on the same column in postgres?
I have inherited a postgres database where there are two identical indexes except for their order:
CREATE INDEX avail_time_ix ON table (availability_time);
CREATE INDEX avail_time_dc_ix ON table (...
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Live update index in production database [closed]
I have read Perform Index Operations Online provided by MSFT but I couldn't find any detail information for my questions.
My questions are:
What is the impact when I update (create/drop) non-...
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Include Columns in Index : SQL Server
I have one question regarding include column in the indexes. If I have an include column which is updating its value quite often, does it update the index every time it's updating the value or does ...
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Performance tuning across two tables using indexes?
Let say I have two tables and a SQL query like this
SELECT table_a.*, table_b.*
FROM table_a, table_b
WHERE table_a.id = ?
AND table_b.col_x = table_a.col_x
AND table_b.id = table_a.id;
Would there ...
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Composite index design where only a subset will be queried
I have a table with columns A (typedate), B1 ... B24 (all boolean).
Generally, A will always be used in every query and only one of B1 ... B24. A large subset of the B columns (more than half) will ...
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Update stats as default or with a sample value
I have been reading many blogs on this and cannot come to a conclusion on update stats for VLDB;s
On SQL server 2012Sp4 and 2014Sp2 we have databases over 15 TB with 4-5 tables covering most of the ...
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Efficient predictable ordering in PostgreSQL
I have a large table of locations. I would like to efficient paginate though the table. I had previously being using an OFFSET approach however the size of the table made that approach unusable. So I ...
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use DBCC SHRINKDATABASE after rebuild / reindex [duplicate]
I have little free disk space.
Why shouldn't you use DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (DBName, TRUNCATEONLY) after every rebuild/reindex operation?
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Primary index is being used, not the one which is on the field present in the where condition
I have 2 tables, one is category table and has below coulmns and has a primary index on cat_id column.
cat_id (primary key), acc_id, islive
Another table is cat_brand table which has below fields ...
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Adding Multiple Individual Indexes vs One Combined Index for Multiple Foreign Keys
Background
I have a "join" table that is used to join one "transactional" table with a "category" table based on multiple columns (and through several joins):
TxnTable(Entity1Name, Entity2Name, ...
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Best Way to Index Multiple Effective Date Columns
I've got a table that is primarily to represent relationships between entities (i.e. mostly composed of foreign keys). These relationships change over time, and so the table has a StartDate and an ...
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Performance Tuning ETL
I administer a datawarehouse running on SQL Server 2016. This datawarehouse has most of its ETL processing done during a nightly load, except for a few SSIS packages that run throughout the day, then ...
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I need help creating an index for timestamp
I have a query taking too long.
This is the table:
mysql> describe parking_data;
+----------------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------+----------------+
| Field | Type ...
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SQL Server 2012 Aggressive Over-Indexing when i run sp_BlitzIndex
I observed blocking and time outs in one of our production server and there is prod outage to one of the application continuously,
When i run sp_BlitzIndex i got Aggressive Over-Indexing, ran script ...
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mongodb aggregation query performance
We have a collection PurchaseOrder, it has embedded array of documents PurchaseOrderLines and another embedded document Warehouse.
The record count is about ~4m for PurchaseOrder and each purchase ...
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How to improve execution time for queries by multiple fields of different data types on a single table?
Table design
On SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Evaluation (64-bit), version 12.0.5207.0, I have this table, called InputResult:
Table has 11.645.408 rows.
The columns ValueAsString, ...
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Is there a way to speed up JOIN ON LIKE?
I have millions of things in a table. I'd like to assign groups to the things based on theirs prefixes.
I tried to add all the indexes but the planner still does nested loop left join.
A demo case ...
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Why filtered index on IS NULL value is not used?
Assume we have a table definition like this:
CREATE TABLE MyTab (
ID INT IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT PK_MyTab_ID PRIMARY KEY
,GroupByColumn NVARCHAR(10) NOT NULL
,WhereColumn DATETIME NULL
...
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Correcting a database that has had indexes and statistics created on it willy-nilly
I've inherited a DB and I believe it was the victim of DBAs who encountered random slow operations, ran the tuning adviser for individual queries and blindly created the recommend indexes and ...
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Index to facilitate joining a table against itself to gather the last observation
I have a discrete step timeseries table where I insert about 1M rows per "month end" with the identifier being the last day of the month (2018/02/28 or 2018/08/31). I try to keep as many months as ...
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Optimizing the table to hold a million records
I want to use a table with a column that should have a million records and it has to retrieve the results very fast.
Im going to use it in a query like below
Database : MySQL
select tags from ...
