Create Statistics Question

I have a 2005 database with Auto Create Statistics set to true and Auto
Update Statistics set to true. Am I correct that it should not be necessary
for me to manually execute any 'Create Statistics' statements to create
statistics to help in query plan generation? My assumption is that with
these two statements set to true, SQL 2005 will create whatever statistics
it needs, and I don't need to create any.

Thanks, Amos.

There may be some exceptions but in general that is true.

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Andrew J. Kelly  SQL MVP


"Amos Soma" <amos_j_soma@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have a 2005 database with Auto Create Statistics set to true and Auto
>Update Statistics set to true. Am I correct that it should not be necessary
>for me to manually execute any 'Create Statistics' statements to create
>statistics to help in query plan generation? My assumption is that with
>these two statements set to true, SQL 2005 will create whatever statistics
>it needs, and I don't need to create any.
>
> Thanks, Amos.
>