Hi all,
   Thank you for all the replies. The third party vendor is the developer for the application accessing the database. We have agreements signed to protect the privacy...

Hi John,
   Thank you for your replies. I just  do not want the vendor to access the servers directly and I also want to know what the did. Thanks...

Hi John,
   Thank you for your reply. So by looking at the execution plans, they created the statistics. Is this correct? What does the statistics do?