What could cause this query to increase the execution time from 10 seconds to 2h30?
2015-06-30 10:01:32
Hi,
Without any changes in the database schema or the query, the execution time went from 10 seconds to about 2h30. The table has 1.04 million rows.
Additional info: if executing a "SELECT *" against this table, it executed in around 15 seconds; if executing a "SELECT ColX", the execution time went up to 1 minute.
Updated the statistics, rebuilt the clustered PK, but no changes in the performance were seen.
The query was improved, and this version is no longer in use, but I still would like to know what was the cause of this huge performance degradation.
The server is a SQL Server 2008R2.
Thanks,
Luis
LOliveira 2015-06-30 10:06:24
Additional information: in Management Studio, there were PREEMPTIVE_OS_PIPEOPS waits
2015-06-30 14:08:50
Are you sure these waits are coming from the same SELECT that is taking a long time? You might need to generate a dump and contact support. This wait type is encountered when doing something outside of SQL Server – are you using filestream or filetable or something that would trigger invoking xp_cmdshell or other file system operations?
2015-06-30 14:04:33
10 seconds -> 2.5 hours doesn't sound like a query efficiency problem, it sounds like either blocking or a serious underlying resource issue.
2015-06-30 15:58:17
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for your comments.
After reading them, I went back to test this query and look closer to the outputs.
In fact:
- the wait I mentioned came from a different query, which is executing SSIS packages with "xp_cmdshell";
- this query is being executed by one of the packages, and it causes CXPACKET waits (e_WaitPipeGetRow). Two different nodes are visible in these waits (0 and 5).
Thanks,
Luis