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Manual Update statistics on small tables may provide a big impact

This is an interesting thing to know. It seems that automatic update of statistics doesn't work for small tables (up to 500 rows) on SQL server 2000.

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Tara
2006-05-12
re: Manual Update statistics on small tables may provide a big impact
Posting the same comment from the forums:

You aren't supposed to rely on the auto update statistics anyway. You are supposed to have it enabled plus also have a job that runs UPDATE STATISTICS. I believe this information can be found at sql-server-performance.com.

Jen
2006-05-13
re: Manual Update statistics on small tables may provide a big impact
very informative, it seems doing it automatic doesn't ensure that statistics gets updated

have you tried it on your system yet? did you get the same result? ;)