• Your sample set is way too small. Everything's fast on 10 rows.

    Estimated and actual rows will be the same for the seek and scan, because it's the number of rows returned by the operator, not the number of rows it read.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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