Does dm_db_stats_properties track statistics properties for “small” tables?
A recent question on dba.stackexchange.com about statistics properties asked the following: dm_db_stats_properties does not keep track of small tables? what is the work around to find the number of records in the table? The question…
ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN failed because one or more objects access this column
There are a variety of causes for the message shown in the title of this post. Manually creating statistics for a column is one such cause. This post shows how that works, and what you…
Statistics update job
SQL Server statistics are extremely important for good query performance since they provide invaluable guidelines that allow the query optimizer to pick an optimal plan. Out-of-date or non-existent statistics objects can cause excessive I/O, poor…
