Cool, thanks, Gail.

From your response, I also now wonder if I'm doing it wrong by trying to compare the execution plans since you seems to be simply looking at the time elapsed and some statistics. Am I to take that those are more reliable benchmarks than an execution plan? I thought the point of looking at an execution plan was to see what would run generally well in most scenarios?

Luis - Yes, I'll keep that in mind.

Jeff - I submit to your superior logic RE: test data. 🙂