• Did you try updating the statisitics with a FULL SCAN? They're pretty widely out of line. That's frequently an indication that they're out of date.

    You're getting a loop join on 10000 records. That should be a hash, I'm sure.

    I'd try updating the statistics again, using the full scan. The optimizer is making some pretty poor choices here.

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