[Solved] T-SQL with three sub queries causing long execution time, any combination of 2 is near instant

How to optimize this SQL query?

In case you have your own slow SQL query, you can optimize it automatically here.

For the query above, the following recommendations will be helpful as part of the SQL tuning process.
You'll find 3 sections below:

  1. Description of the steps you can take to speed up the query.
  2. The optimal indexes for this query, which you can copy and create in your database.
  3. An automatically re-written query you can copy and execute in your database.
The optimization process and recommendations:
  1. Avoid Selecting Unnecessary Columns (query line: 2): Avoid selecting all columns with the '*' wildcard, unless you intend to use them all. Selecting redundant columns may result in unnecessary performance degradation.
  2. Create Optimal Indexes (modified query below): The recommended indexes are an integral part of this optimization effort and should be created before testing the execution duration of the optimized query.
Optimal indexes for this query:
CREATE INDEX regressionrun_idx_regression_id ON RegressionRun (regression_run_id);
CREATE INDEX result_idx_test_id ON Result (test_run_id);
CREATE INDEX testrun_idx_regression_id ON TestRun (regression_run_id);
The optimized query:
SELECT
        TOP (1) *,
        (SELECT
            COUNT(result_id) 
        FROM
            Result 
        JOIN
            TestRun 
                ON (
                    TestRun.test_run_id = Result.test_run_id
                ) 
        JOIN
            RegressionRun 
                ON (
                    RegressionRun.regression_run_id = TestRun.regression_run_id
                ) 
        WHERE
            RegressionRun.regression_run_id = RR.regression_run_id 
            AND result_type_id = 31) a,
        (SELECT
            COUNT(result_id) 
        FROM
            Result 
        JOIN
            TestRun 
                ON (
                    TestRun.test_run_id = Result.test_run_id
                ) 
        JOIN
            RegressionRun 
                ON (
                    RegressionRun.regression_run_id = TestRun.regression_run_id
                ) 
        WHERE
            RegressionRun.regression_run_id = RR.regression_run_id 
            AND result_type_id = 32) b,
        (SELECT
            COUNT(result_id) 
        FROM
            Result 
        JOIN
            TestRun 
                ON (
                    TestRun.test_run_id = Result.test_run_id
                ) 
        JOIN
            RegressionRun 
                ON (
                    RegressionRun.regression_run_id = TestRun.regression_run_id
                ) 
        WHERE
            RegressionRun.regression_run_id = RR.regression_run_id 
            AND result_type_id = 33) c 
    FROM
        RegressionRun RR 
    ORDER BY
        RR.regression_run_id DESC

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