> Finally I have conclusive results:
> * SQL 2000 SP 2 + Slammer Hotfix works fine, no performance slow down.
> * SQL 2000 SP 3 runs very slow and this appears to be just one query
> that is slowing down everything - it is using ODBC as opposed to most of
> our other code that is using ADO. Seems ODBC is somehow negatively
> impacted under certain circumstances by SP 3. We have plenty of other
> code using ODBC and performing fine...
> * Installing SQL 2000 SP 3, then uninstalling and re-installing SQL 2000
> + SP 2 does not reverse the changes done by the SP 3 install. The app
> still runs slowly.
> So we will be going with SQL 2000 SP 2 + Slammer Hotfix on production
> servers, not SP 3. Until either Microsoft brings out the next service
> pack that fixes the performance issue or we can figure out a way to
> workaround the performance problem we've seen in SP 3.
We have also experienced performance problems with using SP3. We have
done some automated tests running against SP2, SP2+slammer hotfix and
SP3. What we have found is that the slammer hotfix definetely
degrades performance. SP3 degreades performance slightly more but the
big performance falloff came with the hotfix. In some load tests,
we've seen processes times double.
Has anyone opened a call with MSFT? We plan on doing this on Monday.
Does MSFT monitor this forum? If so, we have a full automation lab
where we'd be happy to give you any information/logging you need.
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