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spirit1
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Posted - 04/04/2006 :  16:34:44  Show Profile  Visit spirit1's Homepage
thanx. just wanted to know that... can you give the link to his blog about this?

but my real question is why doesn't the SQL server's optimizer use a seek instead of a scan
in the statement without where?


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Edited by - spirit1 on 04/04/2006 16:35:13
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tkizer
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Posted - 04/04/2006 :  16:43:27  Show Profile  Visit tkizer's Homepage
http://www.sql-server-performance.com/dbcc_commands.asp
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bkelley/procedurecache.asp

All I can find in Adam's blog is him using it during his performance analysis. One example:
http://www.sqljunkies.com/WebLog/amachanic/archive/2004/11/10/5065.aspx

You really only need DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS in your example as we only care about clearing out the data pages from the cache.

Perhaps you can forward your question about the seek/scan along to Paul and he can have an engineer from MS help answer it.

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spirit1
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Posted - 04/04/2006 :  16:47:51  Show Profile  Visit spirit1's Homepage
well i would... but he's on vacation

i'll send him a mail... thanx tara.

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byrmol
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Posted - 04/04/2006 :  17:34:38  Show Profile
>> why doesn't the SQL server's optimizer use a seek instead of a scan
>> in the statement without where?

Because it has no predicate to attempt optimisation, and hence can't use the histogram and thus no IO strategy.

I blogged a little about this.. http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/davidm/archive/2005/04/07/4291.aspx
I use these "fake" data hints in base views all the time..



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spirit1
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Posted - 04/04/2006 :  17:40:47  Show Profile  Visit spirit1's Homepage
yeah now that re-read it i remember i've read it a while ago... nice!

at the risk of sounding silly
what histogram??

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spirit1
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Posted - 04/04/2006 :  18:17:22  Show Profile  Visit spirit1's Homepage
well after reading this :
http://www.sql-server-performance.com/indexes_not_equal.asp
i know which histogram you meant

hmm... some more testing awaits tommorow



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