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hey guys,
What comes to your mind if you see a 80% table scan and 1700 estimated cost in update when your clause is like this?
where auxid >= 1000
but if it is like this,
where auxid = 1000
estimated cost on update is 1.15
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Neil
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Modification is driven by index on that column and you should check estimated rows vs actual rows
for that search criteria.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
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"Neil Camara" <neil-on-sql@.restricted.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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> hey guys,
> What comes to your mind if you see a 80% table scan and 1700 estimated cost in update when your
> clause is like this?
> where auxid >= 1000
>
> but if it is like this,
> where auxid = 1000
> estimated cost on update is 1.15
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Neil
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