Donnie Carvajal (8/1/2013)
Would you suggest adding the Update Statistics Task to my maintenance plan that backs up the full database every night?
That may be a waste of effort to do nightly. Especially since you are on a non-production instance. Generally speaking you need to find what kind of frequency works for your system. If you do lots and lots of insert/deletes daily may not be frequent enough. If on the other hand your data is fairly static updating stats daily may be more frequent than needed. There is no magic right answer here.
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