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pcpham
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Australia
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Posted - 06/04/2010 :  02:55:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi Guys,

I have a remote server accessible via an IP address that I have registered in SQL Server Management. One table Contacts contain 100,000 records. My query

SELECT * FROM dbo.Contact
WHERE (CrmPersonStatus = 16) OR
(CrmPersonStatus = 17) OR
(CrmPersonStatus = 19)

Takes 10-15 minutes to run.

If I run the same query using linked server

SELECT * FROM [xxx.xxx.xxx]xxx].Table1.dbo.Contact
WHERE (CrmPersonStatus = 16) OR
(CrmPersonStatus = 17) OR
(CrmPersonStatus = 19)

It takes 30 seconds...

My question is why would it take that long for the first query?

Thanks,

Paula

Kristen
Test

United Kingdom
22859 Posts
Posted - 06/04/2010 :  05:14:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Interesting.

My guess would be that in the first SSMS is pulling data from RemoteServer using ADO - perhaps row-by-row or somesuch, with some inherent inefficiency (surprising given that this is SSMS and one assumes "as good as it gets") - maybe that connection is using Named Pipes or something ghastly?!

Second one is presumably a connection to a "local" server? thus the connection is from LocalServer to [linked] RemoteServer and maybe that connection is set up more optimally.

If this turns out to be always the case I'm definitely going to adopt it as a way of working though!
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