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Maint job fails with "error cannot drop statistics _W_Sys_xxx.." .........

  • May 26, 2013 at 2:46 am

    #294508

    Hello,

    One of our weekly maintenance job which was running fine failed last 2-3 times. In the log we see the error message as "... cannot drop statistics _W_Sys_xxx.." somthing like that.. I don't understand why is it trying to drop those statistics which do not exist... Can anyone shed some lights on this please ??

    Thanks in advance..

    Smith.

  • May 26, 2013 at 4:06 am

    #1618569

    Without seeing what the maintenance job does and why it's trying to delete statistics in the first place, no way to say.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

  • May 26, 2013 at 4:32 am

    #1618572

    Gila,

    Thanks for the quick response...

    It's for rebuilding the indexes.. nothing else..

    Smith.

  • May 26, 2013 at 4:39 am

    #1618573

    Without seeing the details and specifics of what the maint plan does, it's going to be near-impossible to answer this.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

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