• Please can you post the execution plans as .sqlplan files? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/

    There's a lot of important information which is not present in a copy-paste of part of the text plan.

    Table and index defs would help a lot too.

    Gail Shaw
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