29 Nov
2019
29 Nov
'19
3:58 p.m.
On Fri, 29 Nov 2019, at 2:46 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
Another great tip! Dropping the indexes before adding records
Well, it's not dropping them per se, with MSSQL you can just disable them temporarily which is much easier.
ALTER INDEX myindex ON mytable DISABLE ALTER INDEX myindex ON mytable ENABLE
With the proviso that you do not want to do it on clustered and primary key indexes.
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Alan Bourke
alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Fri, 29 Nov 2019, at 2:46 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
> Another great tip! Dropping the indexes before adding records is a
> proven speed tip too if you can do it and then just re-add afterwards.
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> On 11/29/2019 4:48 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
> > Is this a one-off data take on, or an ongoing requirement?
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> > If you have the ability to do it, you might see an improvement by disabling all *non-clustered* indexes on the target SQL Server tables before doing your inserts, and then re-enabling them afterward.
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