What is the purpose of UPDATE STATISTICS?

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What is the purpose of UPDATE STATISTICS?..

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Updates information about the distribution of key values for
one or more statistics groups (collections) in the specified
table or indexed view.

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What is the purpose of UPDATE STATISTICS?..

Answer / sambashiva

This is used after inserting huge rows into table or deleting from a table the pages of the index will be not in the proper way so by running this thing we can bring them to proper way.

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