efficiency of sql server on searching on text field

Hi

We have a application running on Sql server 2005, which require to browse/search text field. Does anyone know if Sql server's search/browse performance on text field is better than oracle?

The table the application will search on is a customer table that has a 10000 records in it, does this size of table casue a performance problem for sql server 2005 if I index the text field?

Please advise, thanks for your help!

Li

Id it a TEXT field or a field with characters stored in it ? How much data can be stored in the attribute ?

Jens K. Suessmeyer

http://www.sqlserver2005.de

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Actually it is text field with 10 character length

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Well 10k rows is not that much. It could be that SQL Server will even cache the rows or do a table scan rather than touch the index. but in terms of planning for the future, you should consider using an index if the attribute is queried a lot.

Jens K. Suessmeyer

http://www.sqlserver2005.de

|||did u tried to create an index that match the search query

find below steps of choosing the most needed indexes

The following query will get the 10 missing indexes would produce the highest anticipated cumulative improvement, in descending order, for user queries.

SELECT TOP 10 *

FROM sys.dm_db_missing_index_group_stats

ORDER BY avg_total_user_cost * avg_user_impact * (user_seeks + user_scans)DESC

You can get the missing index details in the following way:

The following query determines which missing indexes comprise a particular missing index group, and displays their column details.

For the sake of this example, the missing index group handle is 24.(You will need to change the handle value with handle values which comes up from the earlier query)

SELECT migs.group_handle, mid.*

FROM sys.dm_db_missing_index_group_stats migs

INNER JOIN sys.dm_db_missing_index_groups mig

ON (migs.group_handle = mig.index_group_handle)

INNER JOIN sys.dm_db_missing_index_details mid

ON (mig.index_handle = mid.index_handle)

WHERE migs.group_handle = 24 <<put your handle value here>>

For details on this refer to the following articles:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345421.aspx

Using Missing Index Information to Write CREATE INDEX Statements

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345405.aspx