Named pipes vs TCP/IP and NETWORKIO wait type

I am experiencing a problem whereby a 3rd party application is performing da
ta transfers between tables in a database and they are taking enormous amoun
ts of time.
I have no way of knowing what it is actually doing but when I examine the cu
rrent activity, the RUNNABLE process shows NETWORKIO in the Wait Type column
. What is this as I have not been able to find anything in BOL.
Related to this, what is the faster way of connection: named pipes or TCP/IP
? Both the client and the server have both enabled but the application is u
sing TCP/IP to connect. Would named pipes be faster ?
Regards,
Peter Apostolakopoulos.Check this out: http://sqldev.net/misc/WaitTypes.htm
Are both these tables in the same DB? What command is it using?
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"Peter Apostolakopoulos" <apostolp@.britannic.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I am experiencing a problem whereby a 3rd party application is performing
data transfers between tables in a database and they are taking enormous
amounts of time.
> I have no way of knowing what it is actually doing but when I examine the
current activity, the RUNNABLE process shows NETWORKIO in the Wait Type
column. What is this as I have not been able to find anything in BOL.
> Related to this, what is the faster way of connection: named pipes or
TCP/IP ? Both the client and the server have both enabled but the
application is using TCP/IP to connect. Would named pipes be faster ?
> Regards,
> Peter Apostolakopoulos.|||Andrew,
Many thanks for the info. It is very useful. I am still having problems but
I am pursuing this with the suppliers as I they have written some custom SQL
to do the data migration which is "not the best" !!
Peter Apostolakopoulos