On Friday, 10 May 2013 10:05:44 UTC+1, Erland Sommarskog  wrote:   
   > Not sure where you are heading here. Even if you add    
   > statistics manually, SQL Server will still maintain them,    
   �> just like it maintains autostats.  Or do you plan to turn   
   > off automatic updates of statistics for the database?   
      
   I could do that for each statistic - but this is data   
   that is loaded once (once a night) into a database for    
   enterprise reporting.  If it isn't updated after    
   that, then the statistics don't need to be refreshed   
   again, and won't be - right?   
      
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