Glen,

I've seen this many times. This probably due to the optimizer reusing plans. The QA by default recompiles the execution plan while the query passed by the QD reuses a previous queryplan

Look at the books online at the WITH RECOMPILE option. Create a SQL proc with recompile option as see whether this speed up things.

Walter,



>I have an application written in VFP which executes a query against a SQL 2000 table with approx. 3,500,000 records. this table has an index on a computed field called Squeezedesc (replace(description,' ','') ).
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>When I run this query in SQL Query Analyser it is done in negligible time whereas when executed from the app it takes 38 seconds???? Here is my query:
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>Select inv.uid as idinv,inv.isbn13 as sku1 From inv Where SqueezeDesc like 'thehook%'
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>Is this an expected behavior?
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>Glenn