Last week, Ola published a very useful update to his Backup, Integrity Check and Index Optimization scripts: the solution now supports updating statistics.  There are several options, such as only updating when the data has been modified and using the RESAMPLE and NORECOMPUTE options.  An example call: EXEC ...

I missed last week because I was having fun up in Canada... mostly without any kind of computer access at all.  It was a nice break, but now I'm back in the thick of things again.  So this week, I am going to try to beef it up a bit to compensate for last week's missing entry. =================================== DELETE vs. DROP I ...