I inherited a SQL server with one maintenance plan which runs once per week and does these tasks in sequence:
Check Database Consistency
Rebuild Index
Update Statistics
Clean Up History
Maintenance Cleanup Task
I know this is a routine topic, but I need a refresher... isn't the Update Statistics task redundant to the Rebuild Index task? Should Update Statistics task be broken out into its own job and run nightly, possibly along with a reorg index?
Thanks.