• First thing. Is that query a problem?

    The percentages in the plan must add up to 100%, so the fact that a scan is 87% is not necessarily a problem.

    If the query is a problem, then please post query, table definitions, index definitions and execution plan, as per http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/

    Gail Shaw
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