will Collocation help in following situation.

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will Collocation help in following situation.

rajemessage 14195

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December 6, 2013 at 12:28 am

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Hi,
I was trying to partition my tables , and also read about Collocation.
q1) I would like to know whether i will get benefit of Collocation in following situation or not.
q2) Should i make clusterd index on partition key Pid
q3) will it get benefit from partitioning.
I have a table "A" and "B" with many columns and it has one Partition key Pid with is not unique.
with in a table Pid repeates 3 or 4 times.
Both are partitioned, since the partition key is not unique.
so at many places i have to use following query.
1) Select * from A
join (select Distinct pid , tname from B) B1
on A.pid = B.pid
where ......
2) Select * from A
where exist (select pid , tname from B
on A.pid = B.pid
)
yours sincerly

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

What do you mean by 'collocation'? The definition I'm familiar with is 'the action of placing things side by side or in position', which doesn't make sense here.

As for the partitioning, what's the goal of the partitioning? What are you trying to achieve by partitioning the table?

Gail Shaw
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rajemessage 14195 Hall of Fame Points: 3299 More actions · Answer 2

I am trying to get speed by making one table out of many table joins from queries.

and collocation is stroger form of alignment of partitioning (mssql 2005)

note:(I tried to change the heading to elaborate, but i could not do.)

yous sincerly.

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

If you're trying to get queries running faster, don't waste your time looking at partitioning, it's not a general performance tuning technique. Performance improvements are possible from partitioning, but it usually requires that the queries are written specifically to take advantage of the partitioning.

Gail Shaw
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rajemessage 14195 Hall of Fame Points: 3299 More actions · Answer 4

thank you,

but my question is still not answered.

yours sincerly.

Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323504 More actions · Answer 5

the answer is no, then.

speeding up of the queries will require indexing changes /additions based on the common WHERE statements being used;

partitioning for performance, like Gail mentioned, is WAY on the bottom of the list for things to tackle when improving performance.

Lowell

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 6

rajemessage 14195 (12/10/2013)
but my question is still not answered.

I answered your question

If you're trying to get queries running faster, don't waste your time looking at partitioning

Gail Shaw
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rajemessage 14195 Hall of Fame Points: 3299 More actions · Answer 7

Please confirm

query no 1) and 2) will not get the benefit of alignment/collocation,

if i use them in exists or derived table?

yours sincerly