Jason Brimhall troubleshoots an error message involving linked servers and statistics:
On more than one occasion I have had an emergency request because everything was broken. The everything in almost every incident is an SSIS package that is failing with error messages. The error message will typically have text similar to the following:
Could not locate statistics ‘_WA_Sys_00000015_346C780E’ in the system catalogs.
Due to the error, the package fails processing and grinds to a halt. When diving into the package it is discovered that the missing stats happen to be coming from a linked server query. This raises a big bright blaring alarm for me. Why is the SSIS package accessing the data via a linked server? This is rather counter-productive and definitely contrary to what is desired from a performance perspective.
Jason methodically walks us through the troubleshooting process and provides the solution at the end.