Yep.  It's me, Matt.  I chuckled to myself when I saw that you had responded in this forum a few days ago.  It's a small world after all...

Also, be aware that the query uses local variables for the date range. This behavior is completely different than if you used a stored procedure with 2 date parameters...

Mike, when producing its missing index recommendations, SQL Server groups the columns into 2 buckets: all columns involved in equality predicates come first and then all columns involved in inequality...