Symptoms
Assume that you have applied Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 (SP2) on your computer. You call the cdc.fn_cdc_get_net_changes_<capture_instance> Change Data Capture (CDC) query in the sp_executesql stored procedure, and it may come from an application source such as SQL Server Management Studio Server (SSMS), CDC itself, or the SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages. In this situation, you experience poor performance in SQL Server 2012.
Note The decrease in performance could be large. For example, a query can finish in a few seconds in SQL Server 2012 SP1. However, the same query can take several hours to run in SQL Server 2012 SP2. Additionally, statistics update does not help with the problem.
Cause
This issue occurs because of a problem in Cardinality Estimation that severely affects the performance of the cdc.fn_cdc_get_net_changes_<capture_instance> query.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.
Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2012 SP2 /en-us/help/3002049
Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Workaround
To work around this issue, use the Option (Recompile) query hint in your query. In case the query is triggered from SSIS CDC components, the Option (Recompile) hint may be forced by creating a plan guide as in the following example:Exec sp_create_plan_guide
@name = N'CDC_Query1_PlanGuide',
@stmt = N'select [__$start_lsn],[__$operation],[__$update_mask],[Column1],[Column2],[Column3]
from [cdc].[fn_cdc_get_net_changes_dbo_Table1](CONVERT(binary(10), @cs, 1), CONVERT(binary(10), @ce, 1), @mode)',
@type = N'SQL',
@module_or_batch = NULL,
@params = N'@ce nvarchar(22),@mode nvarchar(14),@cs nvarchar(22)',
@hints = N'OPTION (RECOMPILE)'; Note You have to replace the example query with the query that you are facing issue with. It can be grabbed from the Profiler trace, so no extra character is accidentally added. Additionally, make sure that the SELECT query is put in a single line (for example, it should not have any carriage return or line feed) so that the plan guide can work successfully. You may also have to use DBCC FREEPROCCACHE to knock off the old plan from cache.
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
