DROP STATISTICS
Drops statistics for multiple collections within the specified tables (in the current database).
Syntax
DROP STATISTICS table.statistics_name | view.statistics_name [ ,...n ]
Arguments
table | view
Is the name of the target table or indexed view for which statistics should be dropped. Table and view names must conform to the rules for identifiers. For more information, see Using Identifiers. Specifying the table or view owner name is optional.
statistics_name
Is the name of the statistics group to drop. Statistics names must conform to the rules for identifiers.
n
Is a placeholder indicating that more than one statistics_name group (collection) can be specified.
Remarks
Be careful when dropping statistics because dropping statistics may affect the plan chosen by the query optimizer.
For more information about displaying statistics, see "DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS" in this volume. For more information about updating statistics, see "UPDATE STATISTICS" and the auto update statistics option of "sp_dboption" in this volume. For more information about creating statistics, see "CREATE STATISTICS", "CREATE INDEX", and the auto create statistics option of "sp_dboption" in this volume.
Permissions
DROP STATISTICS permissions default to the table or view owner, and are not transferable. However, members of the db_owner and db_ddladmin fixed database roles and sysadmin fixed server role can drop any object by specifying the owner in DROP STATISTICS.
Examples
This example drops the anames statistics group (collection) of the authors table and the tnames statistics (collection) of the titles table.
-- Create the statistics groups.
CREATE STATISTICS anames
ON authors (au_lname, au_fname)
WITH SAMPLE 50 PERCENT
GO
CREATE STATISTICS tnames
ON titles (title_id)
WITH FULLSCAN
GO
DROP STATISTICS authors.anames, titles.tnames
GO