Does the solution meet the goal?

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You have a data warehouse that stores information about products, sales, and orders for a manufacturing company. The instance contains a database that has two tables named SalesOrderHeader and SalesOrderDetail. SalesOrderHeader has 500,000 rows and SalesOrderDetail has 3,000,000 rows.

Users report performance degradation when they run the following stored procedure:

You need to optimize performance.

Solution: You run the following Transact-SQL statement:

Does the solution meet the goal?
A . Yes
B . No

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Answer: B

Explanation:

Microsoft recommend against specifying 0 PERCENT or 0 ROWS in a CREATE STATISTICS..WITH SAMPLE statement. When 0 PERCENT or ROWS is specified, the statistics object is created but does not contain statistics data.

References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/create-statistics-transact-sql