What would you use to improve performance on an insert
statement that places millions of rows into that table?
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Answer / setaceo
1. DML Triggers to be DISABLED and then ENABLED once the
insert completed.
2. DISABLE the Clustered Index and then ENABLED once the
insert completed.
3. After completion of INSERT, Defragmentation should be
there.
4. After completion of INSERT, Statistics should be updated.
5. (Optional) If it is non-peek time & This is the only
activity is going on then, Database recovery mode should be
SIMPLE / BULK-LOGGED. ( It should not be there along with
other activities....)
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Answer / braj123
Check that any indexes are there.
Drp the indexes and recreate after insert.
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