InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comSat, 18 May 2013 15:09:18 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1379731-391-1.aspxthanxThu, 01 Nov 2012 07:41:58 GMTsumith1andonly1http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1379731-391-1.aspxJust changing ntext to nvarchar(max) is not going to magically make queries significantly faster. You need to identify what's slow and tune those queries.[url]http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-1/[/url][url]http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-2/[/url]Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:24:28 GMTGilaMonsterhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1379731-391-1.aspxdatabase will flooded with GBs of data in each day .i used to archive data in day wise.The actual problem is when querying some thing from huge data , to show it on a web page. then there the problem. Query time out occurs. i used indexing .I felt the query execution will be slower in querying for some data.? Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:15:42 GMTsumith1andonly1http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1379731-391-1.aspx[quote][b]sanket kokane (11/1/2012)[/b][hr]you can create index on varchar which is not possible on ntext.[/quote]You can't create an index on an nvarchar(max), which is the replacement for ntext. Just replacing the data types is unlikely to have a measurable or noticeable impact on performanceThu, 01 Nov 2012 06:08:17 GMTGilaMonsterhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1379731-391-1.aspxMay be it will boost your performance,you can create index on varchar which is not possible on ntext.but still it depend upon the length of you data.Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:00:54 GMTsanket kokanehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1379731-391-1.aspxProbably not.Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:02:17 GMTGilaMonsterhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1379731-391-1.aspxi have table with lots of NTEXT fields. some of them are rarely used.i just replaced ntext with nvarchar. is there any chance to execute my query faster?Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:54:35 GMTsumith1andonly1