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From preetika tyagi
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Hi,

I am wondering if someone can help me understand the following query execution behavior:

I have two similar tables and table2 consists of 5000000 records.

Query: INSERT INTO table1 SELECT * FROM table2.
Execution Time: A ms.

Query: INSERT INTO table1 SELECT * FROM table2.
Execution Time: B ms.

Sometimes B >> A (B is very larger than A). Both queries are same and run twice. What could be the reason that the same query is taking very long sometime?

Thanks a lot!

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