Do statistics referencing a column prevent that column from being dropped?
问题 I'm trying a very simple drop column statement: alter table MyTable drop column MyColumn and receiving several errors along the lines of Msg 5074, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The statistics '_dta_stat_1268251623_3_2' is dependent on column 'MyColumn'. followed ultimately by Msg 4922, Level 16, State 9, Line 1 ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN MyColumn failed because one or more objects access this column. I didn't think statistics prevent a column from being dropped. Do they? If so, since these are