how do I make 30 sec running query (select c1 sum(x) from t1 where c1 > 1000 group by c1) run

It seems when I run the query with the set staticts IO on then statistic reports back with the 'work table', and the query takes 30+ sec. if the worktable is ommited(whatever the reason?) the query take less 1 sec.

Here is my take, I believe work table is created in tempdb...and if not then whole query is using the cached page, am I right?

if I am right then the theory is, if I increase the (via sp_configure) server min memory setting and min query memory, the query ought use the cached page and return in less 1 sec. (specially there is absolutely no one but me on the server), so far I can't make it go faster...what setting am I missing to make it run faster?

Another question is if the query can not avoid but use the tempdb, is it going to always be 30 sec+ time? why is tempdb involvement make it go so much slower?

Thanks in for you help in advance

if the memory available is not enough for internal operations like aggregation and ordering, SQL Server will implictly go to Tempdb and will store the results intermediately here. You cannot avoid is, beside putting more available RAM on the process. Don′t know why this slows down your process that much, did you had a look in the SQL Server logs, esprically on database growth ? Maybe SQL Server is increasing the data files one by one, leading to the problem that the query wioll be halted for the time needed to extend the database.

Jens K. Suessmeyer

http://www.sqlserver2005.de

How do i just SUM the group header values?

Here's my table so far in RS:

Facility Name | Claim | Fee | Value | Payment | Table Header
Wisconsin West | | | | | Group1 Header
| 2356 | $45 | $23 | | Group2 Header
| | | | $21 | Details
| | | | $7 | Details
| | | | $16 | Details
| 2357 | $85 | $47 | | Group2 Header
| | | | $21 | Details
| | | | $9 | Details
| | | | $13 | Details
| 2358 | $105 | $65 | | Group2 Header
| | | | $35 | Details
| | | | $12 | Details
| | | | $20 | Details
Facility Totals | 3 | $705 | $405 | $154 | Group1 Footer

*Notes = Table and Group2 footers are hidden and contains nothing. The last column is detailing what level each line is and not actually part of the table.

I believe my issue is with the SUM function and how or where to place it. In the Payment field, the SUM function is adding correctly, but for the Fee and Value field, the SUM fuction is adding as if every line item in the payment field had the fee and value amount, hence the huge amount.

How can make the Fee field total to $235 (45+85+105) instead of $705 (45+45+45+85+85+85+105+105+105); the same goes for the Value field of $135 (23+47+65) instead of $405 (23+23+23+47+47+47+65+65+65).

Below are the expressions I have in place at the Group1 Footer for the Claim, Fee, Value, and Payment fields respectively:

=CountDistinct(Fields!ClaimNumber.Value

=Sum(Fields!dAmount.Value)

=Sum(Fields!Value.Value)

=Sum(Fields!cAmount.Value)

I've tried playing with the scope, but to no avail. Any ideas or maybe I'm doing it all wrong? It's almost as if I need a SumDistinct if such a thing exist.

In the meantime, I'm doing some serious researching. Thanks!

I'm sure this isn't the solution to your problem.

But it does have a sum distinct code sample.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb395166.aspx

quite why they choose to embed the code samples as bitmaps is beyond me

I'm sure you can do something with IIF to fix it.