Slow distinct query in SQL Server over large dataset

Question

We\'re using SQL Server 2005 to track a fair amount of constantly incoming data (5-15 updates per second). We noticed after it has been in production for a couple months that on

Answer 1

I should try something like this:

SELECT typeName FROM [types] WITH (nolock)
group by typeName;

And like other i would say you need to normalize that column.