• sgmunson - Wednesday, March 29, 2017 1:07 PM

     I suspect it was just a good option to provide to for those READ ONLY sets of tables where you have a once and done stats update option.

    But if a table is read-only, then the stats will never be invalidated and hence never be updated

    alex.sqldba - Wednesday, March 29, 2017 12:45 PM

    When would one typically specify NORECOMPUTE  on Statistics?

    The only time I can think of is when I absolutely do not want an automatic, sampled stats update, I always want the stats to be updated with a fullscan and I have a job that does that often enough for the queries, and I don't want to risk getting an automatic stats update sneaking in somewhere unexpectedly.

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