On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:29:07 -0700 (PDT), René
<rene.ruppert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
sp_recompile is typically used to get a new execution plan. On very
dynamic systems it may have to be run daily. On others still not a bad
idea to run it once every week.
-Tom.
>Hi,
>
>I'm having serious issues with our user defined functions. They get
>very slow after a while. The functions I use have several IF-branches
>which check input parameters. Always exactly one branch will be
>executed.
>Normally, the execution time of my functions is something like 300ms.
>After a while though, it climbs up to 20 seconds (!!).
>The interesting thing about it is now: if I just alter the function by
>adding a blank somewhere it will be fast again. What the hell is going
>on here?
>
>To me it seems that 2005 is optimizing the function incorrectly. It is
>executed on very different result sets (some are extremly small, some
>are extensivly large). I can imagine that for one case hashed indexing
>is better and for the other one nested loops. So maybe it sticks to
>one ooptimization after a while? The problem is that I cannot really
>prove it because I cannot force the behavior. It occurs suddenly it
>won't go away until I perform the "add blank" action.
>
>The server is a 8 processor DB cluster with 12GB of RAM, all SPs
>installed (SP2 for 2005).
>
>Any hints what to do?
>
>René


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