I had a large sql query that had a nested select in the from clause.
Similar to this:
SELECT * FROM
( SELECT * FROM SOME_TABLE WHERE some_num = 20)
WHERE some_num = 20
In my sql query if I remove the outer "some_num" = 20 it takes 5 times as long . Shouldent these querys run in almost exactly the same time, if not wouldn't having the the additional where slow it down slightly?
What am I not understanding about how sql querys work?
Here is the original query in question
SELECT a.ITEMNO AS Item_No,
a.DESCRIPTION AS Item_Description,
UNITPRICE / 100 AS Retail_Price,
b.UNITSALES AS Units_Sold,
( Dollar_Sales ) AS Dollar_Sales,
( Dollar_Cost ) AS Dollar_Cost,
( Dollar_Sales ) - ( Dollar_Cost ) AS Gross_Profit,
( Percent_Page * c.PAGECOST ) AS Page_Cost,
( Dollar_Sales - Dollar_Cost - ( Percent_Page * c.PAGECOST ) ) AS Net_Profit,
Percent_Page * 100 AS Percent_Page,
( CASE
WHEN UNITPRICE = 0 THEN NULL
WHEN Percent_Page = 0 THEN NULL
WHEN ( Dollar_Sales - Dollar_Cost - ( Percent_Page * c.PAGECOST ) ) > 0 THEN 0
ELSE ( ceiling(abs(Dollar_Sales - Dollar_Cost - ( Percent_Page * c.PAGECOST )) / ( UNITPRICE / 100 )) )
END ) AS Break_Even,
b.PAGENO AS Page_Num
FROM (SELECT PAGENO,
OFFERITEM,
UNITSALES,
UNITPRICE,
( DOLLARSALES / 100 ) AS Dollar_Sales,
( DOLLARCOST / 10000 ) AS Dollar_Cost,
(( CAST(STUFF(PERCENTPAGE, 2, 0, '.') AS DECIMAL(9, 6)) )) AS Percent_Page
FROM OFFERITEMS
WHERE LEFT(OFFERITEM, 6) = 'CH1301'
AND PERCENTPAGE > 0) AS b
INNER JOIN ITEMMAST a
ON a.EDPNO = 1 * RIGHT(OFFERITEM, 8)
LEFT JOIN OFFERS c
ON c.OFFERNO = 'CH1301'
WHERE LEFT(OFFERITEM, 6) = 'CH1301'
ORDER BY Net_Profit DESC
Notice the two
WHERE left(OFFERITEM,6) = 'CH1301'
If I remove the outer Where then the query takes 5 times as long
As requested the Execution plan excuse the crappy upload