Can't delete auto created statistics on SQL Server 2019

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Can't delete auto created statistics on SQL Server 2019

kaluza

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September 9, 2020 at 2:22 pm

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Hi,
I'm have sysadmin rights but it is not possible for me to delete auto created statisitcs. I receive the message, that the statistic doesn't exits or I do not have enough rights to do this.

drop statistics [company$Sales Line].[_WA_Sys_00000001_73A22229];
What can I do to delete the auto created statistics.

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Cebisa SSC Enthusiast Points: 151 More actions · Answer 1

Can you run: DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS([company$Sales Line],[_WA_Sys_00000001_73A22229])

If this is a statistic on an index, then it cannot be dropped as it exists as long as the index exists. For your database, do you have the [Auto Update Create Statistics] or [Auto Update Statistics] set to True?

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004302 More actions · Answer 2

kaluza wrote:

Hi,
I'm have sysadmin rights but it is not possible for me to delete auto created statisitcs. I receive the message, that the statistic doesn't exits or I do not have enough rights to do this.
drop statistics [company$Sales Line].[_WA_Sys_00000001_73A22229];
What can I do to delete the auto created statistics.

is the [company$Sales Line] table name in the "dbo" schema? If not, you must specify the schema name along with the table name... which is a good habit to get into for all table and other object names. And, just to ask the question... the table name has a "$" sign in it? Or is that from something else and should be a "period" where the schema name is "company" and the table name is "Sales Line" and it actually does have a space in it.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
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kaluza SSC Enthusiast Points: 173 More actions · Answer 3

Hi,

my problem was, that I have been connected to the wrong datebase with mit script.

Thank you very much for your help.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004302 More actions · Answer 4

kaluza wrote:

Hi,
my problem was, that I have been connected to the wrong datebase with mit script.
Thank you very much for your help.

Thanks for the feedback and pretty darned honest of you, as well. I think we've all had a similar problem at least once.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)