• From the sounds of it, you may be experiencing a thing called "Parameter Sniffing", which is usually a good thing, by the way. Sometimes it causes a bad plan to be selected, though. There are many "fixes" for such a thing and what the bad Parameter Sniffing is and how to fix it appear in many articles and post. Just Google for "Parameter Sniffing".

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)