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Asked: 2026-05-26T08:06:51+00:00

I have the following query that I am running on my database server but

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I have the following query that I am running on my database server but it takes about 30 seconds to run and I can’t work out why this is.

SELECT *
FROM [dbo].[PackageInstance] AS packInst
  INNER JOIN [dbo].[PackageDefinition] AS packageDef 
    ON packInst.[PackageDefinitionID] = packageDef.[PackageDefinitionID]
  LEFT OUTER JOIN [dbo].[PackageInstanceContextDef] AS contextDef 
   ON packInst.[PackageInstanceID] = contextDef.[PackageInstanceID]

This produced the following execution plan which to me looks to be good….so I can’t understand why it takes so much time to execute where the resulting data is only 100,000 records (which should be a walk in the park for SQL Server).

SQL Server Execution Plan

Any ideas what could be causing this long execution time?

I have looked at the query in Profiler to see what the stats where on it and they are as follows:

CPU - 4711
Reads - 744453
Writes - 9
Duration - 26329

The following are the table definitions:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[PackageDefinition](
    [PackageDefinitionID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [ts] [timestamp] NOT NULL,
    [ProgramID] [int] NULL,
    [VendorID] [int] NULL,
    [PackageExecutionTypeID] [int] NULL,
    [PackageDefinitionStatusID] [int] NOT NULL,
    [IsInternal] [bit] NOT NULL,
    [Name] [dbo].[D_Name] NOT NULL,
    [Description] [dbo].[D_Description] NOT NULL,
    [CreatedDate] [datetime] NOT NULL,
    [PublishedDate] [datetime] NULL,
    [OwnerUserGuid] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
    [ProcessDefinitionMainID] [int] NULL,
    [KeyInfoHtml] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
    [DescriptionHtml] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
    [WhatToExpectHtml] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
    [BestPracticesHtml] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
    [RecommendedJourneysHtml] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
    [RequiresSLAAgreement] [bit] NOT NULL,
    [SLAFileAssetID] [int] NULL,
    [ImageDataID] [int] NULL,
    [VideoHtml] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
    [VideoAssetID] [int] NULL,
    [UseMapCosts] [bit] NOT NULL,
    [CostMin] [money] NOT NULL,
    [CostMax] [money] NOT NULL,
    [LandingPageVisitCount] [int] NOT NULL,
    [IsDeleted] [dbo].[D_IsDeleted] NOT NULL,
    [CreatedByUserGuid] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
    [OrderHtml] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_PackageDefinition] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
    [PackageDefinitionID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[PackageInstance](
    [PackageInstanceID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [ts] [timestamp] NOT NULL,
    [PackageDefinitionID] [int] NOT NULL,
    [PackageStatusID] [int] NOT NULL,
    [Name] [dbo].[D_Description] NOT NULL,
    [CampaignID] [int] NULL,
    [MarketingPlanID] [int] NULL,
    [CountryID] [int] NULL,
    [DateEntered] [datetime] NULL,
    [DateExecuted] [datetime] NULL,
    [ProcessID] [int] NULL,
    [OrderedByUserGuid] [uniqueidentifier] NULL,
    [RequestedByUserGuid] [uniqueidentifier] NULL,
    [SLAEndDate] [datetime] NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_PackageInstance] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
    [PackageInstanceID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[PackageInstanceContextDef](
    [PackageInstanceContextDefID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [ts] [timestamp] NOT NULL,
    [PackageInstanceID] [int] NOT NULL,
    [ContextObjectDefID] [int] NOT NULL,
    [EnteredFieldValue] [varchar](max) NULL,
    [SelectedListValueID] [int] NULL,
    [AssetIdsString] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
    [SelectedListValueIdsString] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
    [ContextObjectFieldName] [nvarchar](30) NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_PackageInstanceContextDef] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
    [PackageInstanceContextDefID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
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  1. Editorial Team

    The answer turned out to be what @MartinSmith suggested. Because the PackageDefinition table contained about 8 NVARCHAR(MAX) columns, when the resulting join was created and that was over 100k rows, this was causing the varchar(max) values to be re-read over and over and they exist in out of row pages. Hence the large number of logical reads.

    Thanks all for your support, just have to figure out to make the entity framework produce the query that I want.

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