Hi Rod,
It even takes long in EM. Takes more than 30 minutes. The same query used to take less than a second to run. We moved the Server from one machine to another using attach database.

The foll is the results returned that you requested.


SELECT TOP 1000 * FROM SALES WHERE DATE >= '1/27/2003' AND WEEK_CALCULATED=0
|--Top(1000)
|--Clustered Index Seek(OBJECT:([backoffice].[dbo].[sales].[IX_sales_1]) SEEK:([sales].[week_calculated]=0) WHERE:([sales].[date]>='Jan 27 2003 12:00AM') ORDERED FORWARD)

There is a clustered index on week_calculated
and a index on date


TIA

>>>The table has 10 million rows. The query is
>>>select top 1000 * from sales where date > '1/27/2003'
>>>and week_calculated = 0
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>Things to check
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>1. Do you have a clustered index ?
>2. Do you have an index on that date field ?
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>You can always text the query in query analyzer and do a show plan on the query.
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>Do the following
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>1. Select you database in the Query Analyzer
>2. Run the following in the query analyzer
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>SET SHOWPLAN_ALL ON
>go
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>select top 1000 * from sales where date > '1/27/2003'
>and week_calculated = 0
>go
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>Post the text results here and we'll take a look at the problem.
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>Rodman