March 27, 2013 at 7:18 am
Dear All,
I have a covering index Idx1 on Col1 included Col2 and Col3.
My question is if i run the following statement
update tbl1 set col2=anyvalue
will that update statement trigger an update on Idx1 or not?.
I am asking that because i have a big table with a column included in many indexes and i am afraid that could have an impact on performance when executing update statements on that included column.
Thanks in advance.
Nader
March 27, 2013 at 7:37 am
nadersam (3/27/2013)
will that update statement trigger an update on Idx1 or not?.
Yes, I'm afraid it will.
nadersam (3/27/2013)
I am asking that because i have a big table with a column included in many indexes and i am afraid that could have an impact on performance when executing update statements on that included column.
You may want to disable the indexes, perform your update then enable them again and perform index rebuilds.
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March 27, 2013 at 7:49 am
nadersam (3/27/2013)
I am asking that because i have a big table with a column included in many indexes and i am afraid that could have an impact on performance when executing update statements on that included column.
Have an effect, yes. Have a severe one, you need to test to see. Unless you're doing several updates in a row it probably won't be worth disabling all the indexes and rebuilding them after as the rebuild itself will take quite some time, plus you'll have the log impacts for all those rebuilds. Test though, see which is faster overall.
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March 27, 2013 at 8:02 am
I had a similar issue last week with a table of 80 million+ rows which had several indexes with included columns. But now I remember I had to perform several updates which basically took far too long. In the end I took the decision to disable the indexes before running my updates.
As has been suggested you can try it with indexes and (without + index rebuilds) but either way is going to cost you time.
However, if you're going to be doing this again in future, at least you'll know which option will take less time.
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Howard Zinn
March 27, 2013 at 8:05 am
Thanks for you reply
March 27, 2013 at 8:08 am
Dear Abu Dina and GilaMonster thanks very much for you replies
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