Query plan miscalculates row count causing system slow down?

Has anyone seem this before. I've actually caught it once but I think
it's happening multiple times. I have a partitioned view and
performance is generally really good. However, every once in a great
while we'll see a stored procedure "hang" and just run for hours.
Doing much digging the only abnormalities I found where these: 1) the
server was requesting a large amount of PAGE and KEY locks (meaning an
index lock was requested. Checking the locks for that SPID confirmed
this) 2) At one time during testing I saw that the execution plan
called for an estimated 1 billion rows to be returned. Amazing since
the underlying table only have 400,000 records. Now, the theory is
this: Since I'm using a partitioned view and Microsoft claims that
they retain no histogram (statistical data from which to build an
"intelligent" execution plan) somehow it's figuring this 1 billion
estimated row count again and is entering some kind of horrendous
loop. Any thoughts?Have you checked the fragentation of the indexes on the table(s) that the sp
uses?
dbcc showcontig ('table_name').
If the scan desity is low, you might want to do a defrag.
dbcc indexdefrag ('database_name','table_name','index_nam
e')
or in 2005
alter index <index_name> | ALL
rebuild with online = ON
on <table_name>
Sometimes rebuilding is better because is certain cases, indexdefrag doesn't
make the all of index pages contiguous.
--
MG
"tmorris" wrote:

> Has anyone seem this before. I've actually caught it once but I think
> it's happening multiple times. I have a partitioned view and
> performance is generally really good. However, every once in a great
> while we'll see a stored procedure "hang" and just run for hours.
> Doing much digging the only abnormalities I found where these: 1) the
> server was requesting a large amount of PAGE and KEY locks (meaning an
> index lock was requested. Checking the locks for that SPID confirmed
> this) 2) At one time during testing I saw that the execution plan
> called for an estimated 1 billion rows to be returned. Amazing since
> the underlying table only have 400,000 records. Now, the theory is
> this: Since I'm using a partitioned view and Microsoft claims that
> they retain no histogram (statistical data from which to build an
> "intelligent" execution plan) somehow it's figuring this 1 billion
> estimated row count again and is entering some kind of horrendous
> loop. Any thoughts?
>|||Look in BOL for update statistics
TheSQLGuru
President
Indicium Resources, Inc.
"tmorris" <TheRealPawn@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone seem this before. I've actually caught it once but I think
> it's happening multiple times. I have a partitioned view and
> performance is generally really good. However, every once in a great
> while we'll see a stored procedure "hang" and just run for hours.
> Doing much digging the only abnormalities I found where these: 1) the
> server was requesting a large amount of PAGE and KEY locks (meaning an
> index lock was requested. Checking the locks for that SPID confirmed
> this) 2) At one time during testing I saw that the execution plan
> called for an estimated 1 billion rows to be returned. Amazing since
> the underlying table only have 400,000 records. Now, the theory is
> this: Since I'm using a partitioned view and Microsoft claims that
> they retain no histogram (statistical data from which to build an
> "intelligent" execution plan) somehow it's figuring this 1 billion
> estimated row count again and is entering some kind of horrendous
> loop. Any thoughts?
>|||DBCC dbreindex is preformed on all tables once a week as a form of
matanance.
We've concided doing this again midweek or one of the other processes
that update statistics on columns and indexes in SQL 2000. However, in
the test enviroment it doesn't seem to have any impact one way or
another. Like I, and microsoft said, partitioned views don't contain
any statistical history from which to base an exection plan. Thanks
for the suggestion though. I'm looking more of someone to confirm my
theory or say it's complete bunk.
Now, the theory is this: Since I'm using a partitioned view and
Microsoft claims that they retain no histogram (statistical data from
which to build an "intelligent" execution plan) somehow it's figuring
this 1 billion estimated row count again and is entering some kind of
horrendous loop. Any thoughts?
On Apr 23, 11:26 am, Hurme <michael.ge...@.thomson.com> wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Have you checked the fragentation of the indexes on the table(s) that the
sp
> uses?
> dbcc showcontig ('table_name').
> If the scan desity is low, you might want to do a defrag.
> dbcc indexdefrag ('database_name','table_name','index_nam
e')
> or in 2005
> alter index <index_name> | ALL
> rebuild with online = ON
> on <table_name>
> Sometimes rebuilding is better because is certain cases, indexdefrag doesn
't
> make the all of index pages contiguous.
> --
> MG
> "tmorris" wrote:|||We Run DBCC ReIndex on all tables as a weekly maintenance job. And we
looked as doing update statistics 25% midweek but it seemed to have no
effect in our test environment
On Apr 23, 12:42 pm, "TheSQLGuru" <kgbo...@.earthlink.net> wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Look in BOL for update statistics
> --
> TheSQLGuru
> President
> Indicium Resources, Inc.
> "tmorris" <TheRealP...@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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>