>>>>There is nothing to improve on the query.
>>>>You need to think on how to avoid having to download the whole table and only get those when you need them.
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>>>Walter is absolutely correct. Also, if you don't need all columns, you can just select specific columns - that may help if the table is too wide.
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>>Typically my application does need almost all columns. There could be one or two deprecated columns. And I thought that - maybe - if I change the list of columns with "select * from " in the property of the CA, the time it takes to pull the data will be reduced. But maybe it will be reduced by 1-2 seconds. And the customer is complaining of 30-40 seconds. So, for now, I will leave out this approach until I learn more.
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>Run SQL Server Profiler and check what query your CA run.
>Copy and paste that in SSMS and execute it with Actual Execution plan turned on.
>Then check what Execution plan told you :-)
Thank you.
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