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How to reduce the Index Seek cost ? my index seek is taking 87% ?

  • January 16, 2014 at 6:21 am

    #287376

    hi All,

    Please provide the possible options to reduce the Index Seek Cost ?

  • January 16, 2014 at 6:43 am

    #1680622

    First things first. Is that a problem? Is that query a problem?

    If not, why are you worrying about it? The % cost has to be somewhere, it is a percentage.

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  • January 16, 2014 at 6:45 am

    #1680623

    This depends on a whole lot of factors, you're just not giving enough information.

    Anyway, an index seek means the index is being used for what is has been build, so that's usually a good thing.

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  • January 16, 2014 at 7:01 am

    #1680638

    And remember, those costs are just estimated values. They don't represent a literal real-world performance metric. It's just a measure of what the optimizer thinks a given operation will cost based on the operation and the statistics presented to the optimizer.

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