Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Meaning of auto generated STATISTIC name

Use sys.stats catalog to see all the STATISTICS available for the database. To see the statistics in AdventureWorks2012 database, use the following T-SQL statement.

USE AdventureWorks2012
GO
SELECT * FROM sys.stats

You would see the output something like below; (only the values of name column appeared)

_WA_Sys_00000009_00000005
_WA_Sys_00000005_00000005
_WA_Sys_00000003_00000005
_WA_Sys_00000004_00000005

How do you understand above names.

_WA - Washington, the state of the US where SQL Server development team is located.
All automatically generated statistics have the name starting with _WA_Sys. The first number is the column id of the column which these statistics are based on. The next number is the hexadecimal number of the object id of the table.
Source: Inside the SQL Server Query Optimaztion by Benjamin Nevarez

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