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All, In the database we have a table where all the file names are stored.This table is queried every 1 minute by the application to see a file name already exists or not, So the query is designed as, The filename is around 190 charecters in length and there are about 100k records in the table and it is effecting performance, I have put an index on the filename, but still it does not show a significant change on the perfromance. All 100k records needs to stay in the table, for a month or so. but even for first 100k itself, i see it cracking up. any way we can fine tune this query?
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Is there a pattern to the filenames that could be used to create a computed column from? You say the files all have the same pattern inside them, the rest is different every minute. If that is so, you could create the computed column to fish out the relevant filename part, then index that column. You then change your query to access the computed column and it should fly. @Kevin feasel's suggestion of full text indexing would be my next step if my suggestion didn't work out.
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It sounds like your business needs a better naming convention for file names. What you are doing is very inefficient...
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Can you share the query plan? (if it doesnt have any sensitive info, ofcourse)
SQL Server when dealing with character-based columns, starts the index search based on the letters starting from the left (if we're talking about English). Therefore, LIKE 'abctext%' would potentially use an index but that assumes the file name starts with abctext. As soon as you start with % (LIKE '%abctext' or LIKE '%abctext%'), you're telling SQL Server 0 or more characters before abctext, at which point it's going to have to look at the entry for that column for each row.
Think about trying to go through the phonebook knowing that "hit" was in the name, but you didn't know what characters were before or after. You could match this with White, Whit, Whitehead, Chittering, or Doughit. How exactly do you find all matches in the phone book without going through every entry? You don't. You have to consider every single one. And that's why SQL Server won't choose to use an index or be able to make good use for one even if it does select it.
How long is it taking? I have a 264,000 filename table and the same query takes less than 100ms
The problem is, the application pings every 1 min to that table and trys to check if there are any files existing. This is causing a overhead. As we have a requirement to process the files as soon as the file is available, so i cannot mess with the timing.