Erik Darling looks at a new DMV in vNext CTP 1.1:
It’s not exactly perfect
For instance, if you just let it loose without filters, you get a severe error. The same thing happens if you try to filter on one of the columns in the function, rather than a column in sys.stats, like this.
Very cool. It’s one step closer to us removing our dependencies on DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS.