Thanks to you both.
Not sure why I said index fragmentation. When my colleague mentioned it to me, the first thing I asked him was about the stats lol.
Was thinking along the lines of 400 million new rows = out of date stats = inappropriate execution plans for the queries etc...
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It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
David Edwards - Media lens[/url]
Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
Howard Zinn