Slow performance of SqlDataReader

Question

I\'ve query executing ~2 secs in MSSMS (returning 25K of rows)

Same query used in .NET (sqlReader) exetuting few minutes!

I\'ve also tried to execute only re

Answer 1

Also, query analyzer does not download the full contents of the large text or large binary fields. Your SqlDataReader could take longer because it does download the full contents.