Survey: how do you create and maintain statistics

This survey is based on a suggestion from Jonathan Kehayias (blog/Twitter).

In this survey I'm asking two questions:

  1. When you're designing/implementing a database, do you manually create statistics or let SQL Server create them automatically?
  2. How do you maintain statistics? Manually or letting SQL Server do it for you? Or both? 

I'll probably collaborate with Kimberly on the editorial for this, as she's forgotten more about statistics than I'll ever know!

*Please* no comments on this post – wait for the survey results post to avoid skewing the answers (comments are unfortunately moderated anyway, now that my blog gets a lot of spam). I'm very interested in your reasoning, but not until everyone else responds.

 

 

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