Is a Temporary Table Really Necessary?

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Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:09 PM

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Hi Randy,

Thanks for the article. We also had similar issues joining two three tables with over 200 Million rows with WHERE condition, the O/P was dying if we used derived tables or JOINS. But once we started using #temp tables pre-populated with where conditions the queries executed in seconds.

I think execution manager in SQL Server 2005 in not efficiently managing the worker tables or derived tables when the dataset is huge.

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> I am not fond of cursors and advocate doing anything possible to replace the cursor

What do you gain by handling the looping yourself rather than just using a cursor? I try and get rid of cursors by replacing with a single sql statement. Obviously this won't work if you have to call a stored procedure for every record in a table (for example), but if you have to do this then why is using your own looping mechanism preferable to using a cursor?

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> I am not fond of cursors and advocate doing anything possible to replace the cursor

What do you gain by handling the looping yourself rather than just using a cursor? I try and get rid of cursors by replacing with a single sql statement. Obviously this won't work if you have to call a stored procedure for every record in a table (for example), but if you have to do this then why is using your own looping mechanism preferable to using a cursor?

I agree... a good "firehose" cursor makes sense here.

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