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Using UNION ALL statement in SQL Server 6.5
Alexander Chigrik
chigrik@mssqlcity.com
If you use OR logical operation to find rows from a SQL Server 6.5
table, and there is index on the field for which values you use OR
operation, then SQL Server 6.5 can use worktable with dynamic index
on searchable field instead simple index search. You can check it by
setting SET SHOWPLAN ON. So, if the table is very big, it can take
a lot of time. This is the example of simple table creation and addition
of new rows into this table:
CREATE TABLE tbTest (
field1 int identity primary key,
field2 char(10)
)
GO
DECLARE @i int
SELECT @i = 1
WHILE @i <= 10000
BEGIN
INSERT INTO tbTest VALUES (LTRIM(str(@i)))
SELECT @i = @i + 1
END
GO
CREATE INDEX ind_field2 ON tbTest (field2)
GO
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If you want to find all rows from the table tbTest where field2 = '1000'
or field2 = '5000', you can use the following select statement:
SELECT * FROM tbTest WHERE field2 = '1000' OR field2 = '5000'
You can increase the speed of this query by divide it into to select
statement and union this statements with UNION ALL operator. For each
query the appropriate index will be used, and this way can increase
the speed of the new select statement in several times in comparison
with the first one.
There are physical read and logical read operations. A logical read occurs
if the page is currently in the cache. If the page is not currently in the
cache, a physical read is performed to read the page into the cache.To see
how many logical or physical read operations were made, you can use
SET STATISTICS IO ON command. This is the example:
SET NOCOUNT ON
GO
SET STATISTICS IO ON
GO
SELECT * FROM tbTest WHERE field2 = '1000' OR field2 = '5000'
GO
SELECT * FROM tbTest WHERE field2 = '1000'
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM tbTest WHERE field2 = '5000'
GO
SET STATISTICS IO OFF
GO
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