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How can I find out which statistics are evaluated by the optimizer?

My enterprise has a farm of many nearly-identical, isolated production environments. Each environment has a SQL Server 2005 database server, each supporting a database with nearly identical schemas. ...
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Performing a “Spread Negitive” over a dataset

I have a situation where a table that represents outstanding balances and credits are both contained in one table. What I need to do is apply all outstanding credits (preferably in order of oldest ...
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Monumental difference in execution time between queries when using RECOMPILE query hint

I have two almost identical queries running on the same SQL Server 2005 instance: The first one is the original SELECT query as generated by LINQ (I know, I know... I'm not the application ...