SQL Server insert performance

Question

I have an insert query that gets generated like this

INSERT INTO InvoiceDetail (LegacyId,InvoiceId,DetailTypeId,Fee,FeeTax,Investigatorid,SalespersonId,Creat         


        

Answer 1

Hm, let it run, check performance counters. what do you see? What disc layout do you have? I can insert some million rows in 30 minutes - nearly a hundred million rows, to be exact (real time financial information, linkes to 3 other tables). I pretty much bet that your IO layout is bad (i.e. bad disc structure, bad file distribution)