Fast dev workstation!

Working a new gig, they gave me a pretty nice little workstation,
dual-core 3ghz 2.5gb RAM, don't know what the disk is except it's
80gb.
Anyway, I'm working a GL project where we have to produce about 30m
debits and credits from 2.5m transactions.
The SQL is something like:
select
tranid, x1, a2, gl
into #myfoo
from trantable-- 2.5m rows
cross join xtable-- 12 rows
inner join GLCOA on x1 = a1-- 300k rows
inner join attribute table on trancode=attribcode -- ten rows
(selecting into the temp just so I don't have to wait for 30m rows to
scroll into query analyzer)
So, guess how long this takes to run, workstation running XP and
SQL2K?
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Answer: two minutes
Two minutes!?!?
I'm impressed.
When I was a lad, it would have taken quite a while running at 4.77mhz
to generate and write 30m records onto diskettes, I'm just saying, but
even running SQL7 on a 300mhz two-CPU server seven years ago, would
have been easily 10x slower.
I gotta look into the disk config, it's just one drive, this is an HP
workstation.
J.
ps - for all that, the shop is a little chintzy on the monitors, just
a 17 inch 1280x flat panel, OK, but could be better. Not directly a
SQLServer issue. and the mouse has a cord and a ball.
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:44:04 -0800, JXStern <JXSternChangeX2R@.gte.net>
wrote:
>So, guess how long this takes to run, workstation running XP and
>SQL2K?
>.
>.
>Answer: two minutes
OK, two and a half.
But even so, isn't anybody else amazed at this?
Perhaps too easily amused,
J.