yeah i would have thought of statistics as the issue as well;
ok we know it takes 20% of the rows int he table , + 500 rows to trigger auto updates of statistics.
so if you insert 400M rows, is that 400M out of 3000M (13.33 % affected?) or is that 400M of 2600M rows that were already there?(15.38 % affected?)
Lowell
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