jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed May 16 07:45:27 CDT 2007
Don't you hate it when you lose a hard drive!!! My new servers are being
built with Raid6! So that I can lose TWO drives and soldier on. All of my
critical stuff is now being placed out on volumes on those raid arrays. It
is probably not something I would do without a client need, but the total
cost is now under $1000. $500 for the dedicate raid controller I selected:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816131004
And at least 4 hard drives - two for the parity and two for the data. This
card will support 8 drives. In my first server I used the Seagate 320gb
(300 real gb) drives:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140
In the second server I am using the 500gb drives:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148136
With the selected controller you can start with raid 5 and as you add drives
later, just tell the controller to upgrade to raid 6. It "just works" and
works well. And is blazing fast.
As for the IN() clause...
Interestingly, I ran a test of just the IN() clause part and I can pull
counts from 65 million records in just a couple of seconds - Count(PK) as
RecCnt from tblXXX where IncomeRange in('4','5'...). I did index this field
since it had so many values. I also ended up using a NOT IN() because there
were fewer values to enumerate. I did not test whether that was faster or
not.
I ended up breaking the query down into three queries
IncomeRange - 1 field in where using IN()
FemaleWithChildren - 8 fields in where
RecsInZips - 1 join on Zip5
And then built up a query joining the PKs pulled from all of those separate
queries. The entire count using all three subqueries runs in 23 minutes. I
think it is having to do table scans for the FemaleWithChildren subquery
simply because the fields only have a few values in them.
John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com
-----Original Message-----
From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur
Fuller
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:10 AM
To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Processing diverse where clauses
INs are bad policy, typically, unless you have a very small number of
targets. I wrote about this problem at TechRepublic a while ago. I may not
have the article handy, but you can probably find it there. Go to
www.techrepublic.com and search for "Arthur Fuller IN()". That might work.
Else just search for my name and then browse.
Anyway, the article concerns a better way to do the IN part. The problem
with IN is that it almost always forces a table-scan, which in your case
will give you enough time to move to another country and back before it's
done. The article shows how to construct a temp-table from the IN clause and
then do a join to the actual table using the temp table. Especially when
your IN clause could have lots of values, this approach is way faster.
I'll dig now for the article, but I'm fairly certain that it was one of the
things wiped out when I lost a hard disk a month ago or so. If I find it
I'll send it off-list.
Arthur
On 5/15/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> I am processing a query where a set of N fields have any value, AND
> one specific field has an IN() clause, i.e. a ton of codes possible.
>
> Is it more efficient to build up a pair of queries, SELECT PKID from
> tblX WHERE FldA in('A','B'...), and another query where the "OR"
> fields are gathered? Or just use one big query? I hate to even press
> the button... I am having to test with a TOP 100 kind of thing as it
> is.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
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