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KcV

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2012 1:18 AM

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Hi,

How can i eliminate IN from following query ?

select * from idata a where isnull(validationstatus,'Y')='Y'
and srno not in (select srno from IFDetails where eby =1 )
and edate between '20.02.2012' and '20.02.2012'

this query takes too long time due to both tables having more then 1.5 million rows.

thanks

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John Mitchell-245523

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2012 1:47 AM

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You could use an OUTER JOIN instead, although I suspect that you may end up with the same execution plan. Have you considered indexes on the srno column in both tables? Also, the BETWEEN operator is not needed since the beginning and end of the range are identical. Use "=" instead.

John

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GilaMonster

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2012 2:57 AM

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Why do you want to eliminate IN? It's usually more efficient than an equivalent join.

If srno in IFDetails is nullable, you may want to use EXISTS instead. Also your first predicate is not SARGable, so that may result in the query being a little slower than it could be.

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KcV

Posted Friday, March 02, 2012 12:54 AM

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thanks for reply,

as far as I know that, Join is much faster then IN.

i am sorry but i can't understand what you mean by saying :

'Also your first predicate is not SARGable, so that may result in the query being a little slower than it could be.'

thanks for giving me time.

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Posted Friday, March 02, 2012 1:50 AM

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There's plenty of information out there. Use your favourite search engine to search for "sargable predicates".

John

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