FredFlintst0ne (3/10/2010)
Here's a puzzling table variable speed behavior that I can't explain.I have a user-defined table function that returns a small resultset (~200 rows).
The user-defined table function employs a GROUP BY in a query of a very large table
(say, 1,000,000 rows).
When I merely select from the user-defined table function,
the small resultset of ~200 rows is returned in ~5 seconds.
--psuedocode
SELECT myColumn
FROM udtReturningSmallResultsetFromGroupByOverLargeNumberOfRecords
(@myDateVariable)
However, when I try to insert this small resultset into a table variable,
the query below takes about 30 seconds
--psuedocode
DECLARE @tblVariable TABLE(myColumn varchar(50) NOT NULL)
INSERT@tblVariable(myColumn)
SELECT myColumn
FROM udtReturningSmallResultsetFromGroupByOverLargeNumberOfRecords
(@myDateVariable)
Does anyone have any ideas why inserting such a small resultset into a table variable (~200 records)
would cause a 6-fold slowdown? Lacking a good explanation, I can only guess that the presence of the table variable insert is somehow throwing off the optimizer for the user-defined table function select.
I should be more specific. If I run a similar query to the above in 2005, it returns in under 1 second. When I ran it in 2008, it took over a minute and a half. It seems to be a known issue and hopefully there will be a fix soon.