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Asked: 2026-06-13T02:13:31+00:00

Recently I have dropped all automatically created statistics (named _WA_Sys_% ) and run the

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Recently I have dropped all automatically created statistics (named _WA_Sys_%) and run the following T-SQL command to create statistics for all columns of the database :

EXEC sp_createstats @indexonly = 'NO', @fullscan = 'FULLSCAN', @norecompute ='NO'

All worked fine, until I had to drop a column in a table, then an error 5074 occured, indicating that statistics should be dropped before dropping the column.

Is there a way to get SQL Server to drop silently user created statistics when a column is dropped ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t think you can make SQL server do it silently, as this is a common problem for people using user statistics. There is a way to drop relevant statistics with a custom query – would it work for your needs?

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