There is a nice post: SQLskills procs to analyze data skew and create filtered statistics [1] that links to a session where statistics skew is explained and som

There is a nice post: SQLskills procs to analyze data skew and create filtered statistics [1] that links to a session where statistics skew is explained and some scripted solutions provided to kind of cover more rows with filtered stats. [1]: http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/sqlskills-procs-analyze-data-skew-create-filtered-statistics/ http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/sqlskills-procs-anal...