• p.s. The maintenance plan 'Update Statistics' task doesn't use sp_updatestats. It runs an explicit UPDATE STATISTICS against every table, so no checks at all for whether or not even a single row has changed.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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