| Posted by ZeldorBlat on 11/17/05 18:16 
>I have a sql server database with 1.7 million records in a table, with>about 30 fields
 >
 >When I run select * from tablename it can take over 5 minutes.
 >
 >How can I get this time down or is it normal?
 >
 
 Perfectly normal.
 
 What exactly are you trying to do?  If you just want to export every
 row in the table to a csv file or something, use BCP or DTS.  If you
 only want certain rows (or fields) then I would adjust the query
 accordingly.
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