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nitsmooth
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Posted - 09/25/2012 :  10:32:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
select * from table
where Column like '' or Column like ' ' or Column is null

the table has 23 Lakh rows
i have two primary keys in the table

the query is taking almost 12 minutes to run. Is there a was i can speed this up?

Lamprey
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge

3829 Posts
Posted - 09/25/2012 :  10:55:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
What is teh DDL of the table? Do you have any indexes on the table?

Just as a side note, the default settings for SQL is to ignore trailing spaces so: Column like '' or Column like ' ', is redundant.

Here are some links that might help give you more information about what you can post that will help us help you:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2005/05/25/5276.aspx
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prett
Posting Yak Master

USA
161 Posts
Posted - 09/26/2012 :  06:23:53  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The reason behind Slow query performance are due to the load on the system, and other times it is because the query is not written to perform as efficiently as possible. Please take a look of this article to improve query performance: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/speed-up-sql-server-database-queries-with-these-tips/173
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