Nerf-Herding in Denver (SQL Saturday #331)

In the Star Wars universe, the nerf was an adaptable, hairy, slow, grumpy animal that was important for its meat. In SQL Server, the Statistic is a flexible, hairy, (sometimes) slow, grumpy blob that is important in query compilation. The similarities don’t end there, though. Both nerfs and statistics can get unwieldy if not managed properly.