• As for your performance problem (and please in future post different questions in different threads), can you please post the actual execution plan. What you posted was an estimated and that's missing critical information

    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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