Speed up merge join

Question

The merge join in my SSIS package is taking up a long time.

The max buffers per input is set to 30 - would it heIp increase this further?

Answer 1

Hi @Christopher Jack ,

When you begin testing the performance of your data flow tasks, use the default values for DefaultBufferSize and DefaultBufferMaxRows. Enable logging on the data flow task, and select the BufferSizeTuning event to see how many rows are contained in each buffer.

Before you begin adjusting the sizing of the buffers, the most important improvement that you can make is to reduce the size of each row of data by removing unneeded columns and by configuring data types appropriately.

If AutoAdjustBufferSize is set to true, the engine data flow engine uses the calculated value as the buffer size, and the value of DefaultBufferSize is ignored.

1.Please reduce the size of each row of data by removing unneeded columns and by configuring data types appropriately.

2.Please set property AutoAdjustBufferSize as True in ssis package.

Hope the following links will be helpful:

Adjust the Sizing of Buffers

Improving data flow performance with SSIS AutoAdjustBufferSize property

Best Regards,
Mona

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