Hi Thanks for your reply.

The problem is because of many indexes on the table i feel (they are )the insert/update/delete(there's a lot of insert and update on this table daily...

Can i use SP_updatestats 'resample' instead of the update stats maintainence task .

what about the statistics? i have another Import job that kicks off at the same time when the Update statistics step starts . Is there a possibility that Update statistics...

hi thanks for you reply actually there has been a huge amounts of I/o waits ,long running queries and also query timeout ....so i guess was may be an increase...